Kaieteur News – President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson, has issued a lengthy public statement responding to a series of allegations made against him by fellow judges of the regional court, following reports first published in the Trinidad Express alleging internal turmoil, breaches of judicial protocol and claims that court panels were manipulated to secure particular outcomes in cases.

In the statement released on Friday, Justice Anderson said the reports had caused “concern, anxiety and profound sadness” both within the CCJ and across the region, and condemned what he described as the unauthorised leaking of confidential internal deliberations and correspondence.

“Such disclosures and their publication are wholly unacceptable and strike at one of the fundamental principles upon which every independent judiciary depends,” he said, adding that the leaks have eroded “public trust and confidence in the third branch.”