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The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh on his ap­point­ment as the ninth Chief Jus­tice of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, while rais­ing con­cerns about the process that led to his se­lec­tion.

In a state­ment, the As­so­ci­a­tion ac­knowl­edged Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh’s con­tri­bu­tion to the ju­rispru­dence of Trinidad and To­ba­go and his ser­vice as a lec­tur­er at the Hugh Wood­ing Law School. LATT al­so ex­tend­ed its grat­i­tude to out­go­ing Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie ORTT for his years of ser­vice and wished him well in fu­ture en­deav­ours.

How­ev­er, the As­so­ci­a­tion ex­pressed con­cern about what it de­scribed as a “has­tened and trun­cat­ed process” sur­round­ing the ap­point­ment. LATT cit­ed Sec­tion 102 of the Con­sti­tu­tion, which re­quires the Pres­i­dent to con­sult with the Prime Min­is­ter and the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion be­fore ap­point­ing a Chief Jus­tice.