PRESIDENT of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and chairman of the CCJ Academy of Law, Justice Winston Anderson, says the court has fulfilled its 20-year mandate of developing an indigenous Caribbean jurisprudence and expanding access to justice across the region.

Speaking at the Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain on November 26, at the academy’s eighth biennial conference, part of the CCJ’s 20th-anniversary celebrations, Anderson said the court’s inauguration on April 16, 2005, marked a decisive step in regional judicial independence.

He said since delivering its first judgement, the court has issued 312 decisions in its appellate jurisdiction, shaping legal principles in constitutional, criminal, civil, land, family and contract law.