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The Honourable Madame Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon

Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon, Justice of Appeal of the
Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago, was admitted to
the Bar in 1982 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal
in October 2008.
Prior to her appointment to the High Court Bench in 1997,
Justice Yorke-Soo Hon had over 15 years practice at the
Bar, more notably in Criminal Law. She obtained her LL.B
from the University of the West Indies in 1980 and her L.E.C
at the Hugh Wooding Law School where she serves today
as an Associate Tutor in Criminal Practice and Procedure.
From 2013 – 2016 she also tutored in Ethics, Rights &
Obligations of the Legal Profession.
Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon is a member of the Board of Trinidad and Tobago
Judicial Education Institute and a fellow of Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute.
She also holds a diploma in ‘Training Judicial Trainers’ from the University College of
London. Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon has chaired a number of Committees,
including the Bench Book Committee responsible for the publication of the Criminal
Bench Book in Trinidad and Tobago in 2015.
Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon was the Chairperson of the Sentencing Update
Handbook which was published recently. She is also a member of the Criminal Justice
Reform Committee (JURIST Project), and the Chairperson of the Magistrates’ Benchbook
Committee which is expected to publish a Handbook for Magistrates in the English
speaking Caribbean soon. She is also the Chairperson of the Implementation of the
Criminal Procedure Rules 2017 Committee. She has done extensive training in Criminal
Practice and Procedure with Judicial Officers both in Trinidad and Tobago and in the
region.

The Honourable Mr. Justice Mark Mohammed

Mr. Mohammed began his Legal Career in 1987 as State
Counsel in the Solicitor-General’s Department. On his
own application, he was transferred to the Office of the
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in August 1987. As
State Counsel, he prosecuted extensively before the
Magistrates’ Courts, particularly in preliminary enquiries
into charges of murder.
Between 1983 and 1997, as State Counsel III and Assistant
DPP, Mr. Mohammed prosecuted in the Port of Spain
Criminal Assizes and in appeals before the Court of
Appeal. He was appointed DPP on the 31st July, 1998, the
youngest in the Commonwealth of Nations.
As DPP, Mr. Mohammed managed to clear a substantial backlog of indictments and
implemented a case management system. He also conducted regular Assize and
Magistrates’ Court workshops to sensitise prosecuting attorneys to various legal issues.

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