Court of Appeal appointment

Justice Elliott D. Mottley, QC, has been appointed to the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, and will join the Court for his first sitting in April 2006.

Currently living in St. Michael, Barbados, Justice Mottley has served several nations in the Caribbean region in his distinguished legal career that spans more than 40 years. During this illustrious career, Justice Mottley has also served in various capacities in the Caribbean Overseas Territories including Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, and Montserrat.

Some of his recent professional milestones include his appointment as President of the Court of Appeal of Belize in 2004, acting as a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Barbados in 2002, and his appointment as non-resident Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal in the Turks & Caicos (2002) and Belize (1999).

First called to the Bar in England and Wales in November 1961, Justice Mottley was shortly admitted to practise at the Bar in Barbados, in 1961.

He was subsequently soon admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of the West Indies Associated States (1967), as well as to the Bar in a number of regional territories. These included St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Montserrat, and Anguilla.

His other accomplishments include serving as a member of the Barbados Parliament 1969-1976, when he represented the constituency of the City of Bridgetown for the Barbados Labour Party. He was appointed as Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Bermuda and served in that position from January 1995 – to December 1998. He acted as Deputy Governor of Bermuda on several occasions.

More recently, in 2002, he was approved Expert witness on Law of Barbados in ongoing Canadian litigation.

Over the years Justice Mottley appeared on behalf of many governments in the Eastern Caribbean.

‘I consider it a privilege to be appointed to the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, and I look forward to my first sitting of the Court next year,’ Justice Mottley said.