Appendix III

• Author: Duke Pollard
• Profession: Director of the CARICOM Legislative Drafting Facility and one of the principal consultants on all development aspects of the Caribbean Court of Justice on which he now sits as a Judge
• Pages: 290-302

The Caribbean Court of Justice

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appendix III

PROTOCOL ON THE STATUS, PRIVILEGES AND

IMMUNITIES OF THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF

JUSTICE AND THE REGIONAL JUDICIAL AND

LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION

Preamble

The Contracting Parties

Noting that the Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Court

of Justice entered into force on 23 July 2002;

Recognising that paragraph 2 of Article VII of the Agreement

Establishing the Caribbean Court of Justice (hereinafter referred

to as ‘the Agreement’) provides that the privileges and immunities

to be accorded the Regional Judicial and Legal Services

Commission shall be laid down in a Protocol to the Agreement;

Conscious that Article XXX of the Agreement also provides

that the privileges and immunities to be recognised and granted

by the Contracting Parties thereto to the judges and officers of

the Court necessary to protect their independence and

impartiality, shall be laid down in a Protocol to the Agreement;

and