Kirk Anderson (judge)

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Kirk Brian Anderson (born 20 April 1967) is a Caribbean jurist.[1] A dual national of Jamaica and Belize, he has experience both before the bench and behind it, in Belize as Director of Public Prosecutions and in Jamaica as a justice of the Supreme Court, and in both countries as a lawyer in private practice.

Career[]

Anderson came to Belize in the early 1990s, where he started out as a Crown Counsel. He later spent some years in private practice at the law firm of Barrow and Williams.[2] As a high-profile criminal attorney, Anderson often butted heads with the police, but nevertheless he was named Belize's Director of Public Prosecutions in March 2002, succeeding .[3] However, as his term went on, he began to clash increasingly with the United Democratic Party.[4] In September 2004, he wrote to Financial Intelligence Unit Director to recommend that money laundering charges be filed against UDP head Dean Barrow, his old boss at Barrow and Williams.[5] In October 2006, angered by the police's handling of a murder case against Chayben Abou-Nehra, and with the Leader of the Opposition and the Bar Association of Belize aligned against him, Anderson agreed to resign.[6] He departed from Belize at the end of that year.[7] He had forgotten to pay his final tax bill of BZ$28,000, and so he was detained at the airport and missed his initially-scheduled flight.[8]

In Jamaica, Anderson was named a partner at Dunn & Cox Attorneys-at-Law in Kingston, Jamaica in 2007, specialising in civil and commercial litigation and sports and entertainment law.[9] He also became a first-year associate course tutor at his alma mater, the Norman Manley Law School.[10] In August 2011, he was named a judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica, fulfilling one of his lifelong dreams.[2][11]

Personal life[]

Anderson was born in Kingston, Jamaica.[1] He did his LL.B. at the University of the West Indies and his Legal Education Certificate at Norman Manley Law School.[9] He was called to the bar of Belize in 1993 and of Jamaica in 2007.[11]

Works[]

  • Anderson, Kirk (September 2000). "The flogging of prisoners in Belize: is this practice constitutionally valid?". Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Seminar (PDF). Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 9 November 2012.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "List of Attorneys" (PDF). Belmopan City: Embassy of the United States. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Kirk Anderson on Wagner Lane". Belize Times. 13 January 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. ^ "Kirk Anderson will be new D.P.P." 26 March 2002. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. ^ "DPP Kirk Anderson Returns To Work". 7 News Belize. 29 August 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  5. ^ "The DPP eyes the Leader of the Opposition". 7 News Belize. 23 September 2004. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  6. ^ "DPP Kirk Anderson Heading for the Exit". 7 News Belize. 12 October 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  7. ^ Chanona, Janelle (27 December 2006). "Kirk Anderson ends career in Belize". News 5 Belize. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Former D.P.P. detained at P.G.I.A. for tax paper". News 5 Belize. 29 December 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  9. ^ a b "Attorney profile: Kirk B. Anderson". Dunn & Cox Attorneys-at-Law. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  10. ^ "Two-year Programme". Norman Manley Law School. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  11. ^ a b "Supreme Court Gets Two New Judges". The Jamaica Gleaner. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
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