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The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has is­sued a state­ment fol­low­ing the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil’s rul­ing in Ay­ers-Cae­sar v. JLSC ([2025] UKPC 15), ad­dress­ing key le­gal is­sues re­gard­ing ju­di­cial tenure and the au­thor­i­ty of the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (JLSC).

The LATT said the Privy Coun­cil’s judg­ment con­firms that ju­di­cial of­fi­cers may be re­moved un­der Sec­tion 137 of the Con­sti­tu­tion based on con­duct that oc­curred be­fore their ap­point­ment.

The rul­ing al­so de­ter­mined that the JLSC did not fol­low the con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­ce­dure for re­moval in the case of Madam Jus­tice Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar.