Acknowledgements

• Author: George Belnavis
• Profession: Attorney-at-law of over 30 years practice at both the Public and Private Bar and is currently Senior Tutor II at the Norman Manley Law School, Kingston, where he has taught for nearly 20 years
• Pages: 11-11

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank the following persons who have assisted me in making

this text possible:

The former Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Mr Justice

C.D. Morrison, Q.C. Justice of Appeal, and the late Principal of the Norman

Manley Law School, Mr Keith Sobion, who facilitated my writing of this

book; and Justice of Appeal, Mr Justice Algernon Smith who encouraged

me in the writing of this book and who assisted me in the proof reading.

Miss Samantha Marshall, Attorney at Law of Antigua and Barbuda; Mr

Malcolm Adderley, Attorney at Law and former Judge of the High Court

and Mr Arthur Dion Hanna, Attorney at Law and Director of the Eugene

Dupuch Law School Legal Aid Clinic, both of the Commonwealth of the

Bahamas; in chambers, particularly Mr Alair Shepherd, Mr Adrian King

and Mr Andrew Pilgrim, all of Barbados; and Mr Kenneth Foster, Q.C.,

and his son Mr Marcus Foster, both of Saint Lucia; former Principal of the

Hugh Wooding Law School, Madam Justice Annestine Sealey, and Miss

Dana S. Seetahal, Attorney at Law and lecturer at the Hugh Wooding Law

School, all of whom willingly gave information and advice as to the practice

in their respective jurisdictions.

Mrs Yvonne Lawrence, former Librarian at the Norman Manley Law

School and the Library staff worked diligently and assiduously in sourcing

materials and information for me.

I am also grateful to my colleagues, staff and students at the Norman

Manley Law School for their continuous and kind support and my family

and close friends who were a constant source of inspiration to me

And to the late Mrs Ann Carey, who had the unenviable task of typing

this text and accordingly the problem of trying to read my handwriting.

George A. Belnavis

November, 2008