Premier Fahie to attend funeral of late Justice Redhead
The late retired Justice Redhead will be interred at the St Georges Cemetery following a funeral service on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in Antigua.
The 77-year-old Judge who served in the Virgin Islands (VI) passed away on March 4, 2019, in Antigua after a brief illness.
Up to post time, the Premier’s delegation and his departure time from the Territory was unknown. Premier Fahie's first official trip was to an OECS meeting in Guadeloupe where Caribbean leaders embraced him while he called for a closer working relationship with his regional counterparts.
Who is Justice Redhead?
The Grenadian Judicial Officer in 1974 moved to Saint Kitts and Nevis, where he began working as a Crown Counsel.
In 1975, he became Registrar of the Saint Kitts and Nevis courts and also served as a magistrate of the courts. In 1980, he became the Director of Public Prosecutions for Saint Kitts and Nevis.
In 1985, the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Community appointed Redhead to be a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and in 1997, he became an Appeals Court Judge of the same court.
Since retiring from the Court in 2003, he was twice re-appointed as an Acting High Court Judge of the Court: from 2004 to 2006 and he was again appointed in 2007.
As a High Court Judge, Redhead was assigned to reside in and hear cases from a number of countries, including Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, and Saint Lucia.
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