Cornwall Bar to honour judges
THREE Jamaican judges will be honoured “long and meritorious service to the Judiciary” at the January 18 annual general meeting of the Cornwall Bar Association scheduled for the Commingle Hotel in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland.
They are justices Donald Bingham, David Pitter and Maurice Reckord.
Bingham is a Court of Appeal judge, while Reckord and Pitter preside in the Supreme Court.
“All three have given a total combined service of more than 130 years to the Judiciary,” said Clayton Morgan, president of the Cornwall Bar Association.
Pitter, who is expected to retire later this year, has given 51 unbroken years of service to the judiciary. He started as an assistant clerk of the courts in 1954.
Bingham, meanwhile, has been working with the judicial services since 1959 and, like Pitter, is expected to retire this year.
Reckord, who recently retired, joined the judiciary in the late 1960s.
“They have all given sterling service, working themselves up from the bottom of the ladder in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, straight up to the top of the Judiciary in their respective capacities,” Morgan stated.
He added that all three judges were highly respected by members of the legal profession and that was the reason why the Cornwall Bar Association decided to honour them.
Justice Seymour Panton from the Court of Appeal will be the guest speaker.