A release from the Project Coordinating Unit, Caribbean Court of Justice said that Professor Bishop was among the persons designated to serve on the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission and Professor Lutchman has been confirmed as a member of the Board of Trustees. Both bodies will hold their first meeting on August 21-23 in Trinidad and Tobago.

The release says too that Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma of Trinidad and Tobago will swear in the members of the Commission as required by the Agreement that establishes the CCJ on behalf of the Heads of the Judiciary of the Contracting Parties.

The other members of the Regional and Judicial Services Commission are Othniel Sylvester CMG, QC, President of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Bar Association; Dr Lloyd Barnette, OJ, President of the Independent Human Rights Association of Jamaica; Sir David Simmons, Chairman of the Judicial Services Commission of Barbados; Kenneth Lalla, Chairman of the Public Service Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, Gloria Gray and Nelcia Robinson, representatives of Civil Society; Professor Magada Hoever, University of Suriname; Allan Alexander SC, of the Bar Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the Rt Hon, Sir Vincent Floissac of Saint Lucia.

The Commission, according to Article V(1) of the Agreement which establishes the CCJ, is comprised of the President of the CCJ, who is its chairman; two persons nominated jointly by the Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations and the OECS Bar Association, one chairman of the Judicial Services Commission of a contracting party selected in rotation by alphabetical order for a period of three years; the chairman of a Public Service Commission of a contracting party selected in rotation in reverse alphabetical order for a period of three years; two persons from civil society nominated jointly by the Secretary-General of the Community and the Director General of the OECS for a period of three years following consultations with regional non-governmental organisations; two distinguished jurists nominated jointly by the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of the West Indies (UWI); the Deans of the Faculties of Law of any of the contracting parties and the chairman of the Council of Legal Education and two persons nominated jointly by the Bar or Law Associations of the contracting parties.

The Board of Trustees on which Lutchman will serve according to Article V (1) of the Agreement that establishes the CCJ, consists of the following persons or their nominees: the Secretary General of the Community; the Vice-Chancellor of the UWI; the President of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean; the Chairman of the Association of Indigenous Banks of the Caribbean; the President of the Caribbean Institute of Chartered Accountants; the President of the Organisation of Commonwealth Bar Associations; the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of the Judiciary of the CARICOM member states; the President of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) and the President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour.

Besides Lutchman, the release says that the other members confirmed as members of the Board of Trustees are Oswald Barnes, Internal Oversight Officer, CARICOM; Dr Bhoe Tiwari, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal, St Augustine Campus, UWI; Gerry Brooks, Director of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago; Louis Greenidge, President of the Association of Indigenous Banks of the Caribbean; Joel Edwards, President of the Caribbean Institute of Chartered Accountants, Trinidad and Tobago; Dr Peter Maynard, President of the Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations; Dr Abdulai Conteh, Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Judiciary of CARICOM; Dr Rollin Bertrand, Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC).