Acting Chief Justice Madame Justice Margaret Ramsay Hale sworn in by Governor
Justice Margaret Ramsay Hale was sworn in as the acting Chief Justice (CJ) of the Turks and Caicos Islands by His Excellency Governor Ric Todd today, Thursday, 11 Apr 2013.
She will remain as acting CJ until the return of Chief Justice Edwin Goldsbrough from annual leave. Ramsay-Hale, a former Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands, is currently the most senior judge on the Supreme Court after Goldsbrough.
A Jamaican, Ramsay-Hale holds a degree in economics from the London School of Economics in addition to her law degree from the University of the West Indies.
Prior to her arrival in the Turks and Caicos Islands she was appointed a Judge of the Family Court in St James, Jamaica, eventually moving to the Criminal Courts as a Resident Magistrate for the parish.
She then moved to Cayman Islands to serve as a Magistrate of the Summary Court and she sat as an Acting Judge of the Grand Court for several months.
Ramsay-Hale is the daughter of the late legendary Jamaican attorney Ian Ramsay, QC, who is widely regarded as one of the best lawyers in the history of the Caribbean and who was the first Jamaican lawyer to earn the distinction of Queen’s Counsel.
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