Dame Pereira ‘happy to have the opportunity’ to sit on JCPC
Dame Pereira sat on the JCPC December 9 to 13, 2024, for a number of hearings, as one of the newest members to His Majesty King Charles III’s Privy Council.
Speaking in a video on the UK Supreme Court’s X profile, Dame Pereira said she found her welcome at the Court to be “warm”.
“All the persons in the Court and in the building, the Registrars, other officers, the Judges are very warm, welcoming and sitting on the cases very, very interesting,” she stated.
'Happy to have the opportunity'- Dame Pereira
Dame Pereira also called her first week sitting on the JCPC a well-needed experience adding, “I think that it is one surely I am very happy to have the opportunity.”
Meanwhile, when it comes to having judges from other jurisdictions served by the Court on its panel of judges, the former Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court said, “It sort of helps to bridge, I think sometimes [what] is seen as a distance or remoteness in terms of you know judges of your final appeals court and in both ways understandings from persons who serve in the system.”
The Court in an X post said, “Working with a judge from the Caribbean has been invaluable to the Court.”
Ask Justice Session
Dame Pereira also took part in an Ask a Justice session during a break from one of her hearings with the London Academy of Excellence and the St. Angela’s Ursuline School.
The students asked Dame Pereira for career advice and about her role as a judge.
Dame Pereira was also welcomed by the BVI London Office where her achievements were also celebrated.
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