Anthony Smellie

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Anthony Smellie QC is the Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands.^[1][2]

Career[]

Smellie received his LLB from the University of the West Indies in 1975. He was called to the bar in Jamaica, where he served as Clerk of the Courts in Westmoreland from 1976 to 1977. He then worked as Crown Counsel and Assistant Director of Public Prosecution from 1977 to 1983. He was an assistant lecturer at the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica from 1980 to 1983.^[3]

He moved to the Cayman Islands in 1983, where he served as Principal Crown Counsel and from 1983 to 1992. Justice Smellie was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1991. He was acting from January to November 1992. In January 1993, he was appointed judge of the Grand Court. He then became the Chief Justice in June 1998.^[3] He is a founding member of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, representing the Cayman Islands, and he serves as the Mutual Legal Assistance Authority under the United States/Cayman Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty.^[4]

In 2018, he was appointed to Bermuda's Court of Appeal.^[5]

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