Anguilla has strengthened its judiciary with the addition of a third magistrate to provide cover when the junior and senior magistrates are unavailable.
Richard G Floyd was appointed to the Magistrate’s Court following a region-wide recruitment process and consultation with the Judicial Services Commission.
He will preside over cases when senior magistrate Keithly Benjamin, OBE, and junior magistrate Renee Joseph are not sitting, according to a statement from the Governor’s Office.
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Canada-born Floyd was educated at the University of Ottawa, York University and Harvard University in the United States.
He previously worked as Crown counsel in Canada, a prosecutor in Australia and taught at Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Ontario.
In 2016, he was recognised as an International Fellow with the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, DC.
Floyd brings extensive judicial experience from across the Caribbean having served as a high court judge in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court for six years.
He has also held judicial roles in the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The appointment was formalised when Governor Julia Crouch swore him into office on 23 June.
Anguilla’s Magistrate’s Court proceedings are held daily within the Atlin Noraldo Harrigan Parliamentary Building.
