The public is advised of the appointment of the new President of the Court of Appeal which takes effect from April 27 2024.
Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago, was admitted to the Bar in 1982 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2008.
Prior to her appointment to the High Court Bench in 1997, Justice Yorke-Soo Hon had over 15 years practice at the Bar, more notably in Criminal Law. She obtained her LL.B from the University of the West Indies in 1980 and her L.E.C at the Hugh Wooding Law School where she serves today as an Associate Tutor in Criminal Practice and Procedure. From 2013 – 2016 she also tutored in Ethics, Rights & Obligations of the Legal Profession.
Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon is a member of the Board of the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago and a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. She also holds a diploma in ‘Training Judicial Trainers’ from the University College of London. Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon has chaired a number of Committees, including the Bench Book Committee responsible for the publication of the Criminal Bench Book in Trinidad and Tobago in 2015, the Sentencing Update Handbook (2016) and the implementation of the Criminal Procedure Rules (2017). She was also a member of the Criminal Justice Reform Committee (JURIST Project), and the Chairperson of the Magistrates’ Benchbook Committee, which was tasked with the publication of the Handbook for Magistrates in the English-speaking Caribbean (2021). Presently the Honourable Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon serves as a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Advisory Committee for the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and co-chairs the Monitoring, Evaluating and Facilitating Committee of the Needham’s Point Declaration on Criminal Justice Reform in the Caribbean.
She has done extensive training in Criminal Practice and Procedure with both Attorneys and Judicial Officers in Trinidad and Tobago and in the region.
