Special Prosecutors & Supreme Judges
Personnel changes in the Supreme Court Judiciary
The Governor has agreed to the recommendation of the Judicial Services Commission that with the appointment of Hon Justice Richard Williams to the Grand Court of Cayman Islands; the impending retirement of the current Chief Justice in November 2011; and an additional judge being required for the Judiciary to meet workload demands, there is an immediate requirement for the appointment of three new Judges to the Turks and Caicos Supreme Court Bench.
Applications were received from a large number of well qualified applicants, and, following interviews of the short listed candidates, the Judicial Service Commission has
recommended to the Governor that the following appointments are made:
Chief Justice Hon Justice Edwin Goldsbrough
Goldsbrough was born and educated in England. He was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1980 and obtained a post graduate Diploma in Business Administration in 1988. Having worked in courts administration in England for some years, he worked abroad in various judicial and advisory roles. These included advising on the establishment of the Judicial College of Zimbabwe and the training of newly appointed Judges, training officer and Senior Crown Counsel on St Helena, Supreme Court and Appeal Court Judge of the Republic of Vanuatu and, for the last six years, High Court Judge, Head of the Civil Division and acting President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands. He also chaired the National Judiciary IT working group and devised and delivered training on new legislation for judicial officers.
Supreme Court Judges Hon Justice Joan Joyner
Joyner is well known as the present Chief Magistrate of the TCI and has also served in this jurisdiction as Senior Crown Counsel and Resident Magistrate. Joyner was called to the Jamaica bar in 1982 having qualified in law from the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School. She had already obtained a bachelor of arts degree in English at the Marquette University, Milwaukee. She has been admitted as an attorney to the Jamaica and Texas bars. After working in various legal roles in Jamaica, Joyner worked in TCI as Senior Crown Counsel followed by Director of Public Prosecutions in St. Kitts-Nevis and Senior Crown Counsel in the British Virgin Islands. After a short period in private practice in Texas, she was appointed Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Dominica before her appointment as Resident Magistrate on Grand Turk. She was appointed Chief Magistrate in 2008 when Justice Richard Williams was made a judge of the Supreme Court.
Hon Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale
Ramsay-Hale is from Jamaica where she was educated until attending school in England to take her GCE A-levels. She obtained a bachelor of science in Economics at the London School of Economics and a bachelor of law’s degree from the University of the West Indies. Following completing her legal education at the Norman Manley Law School in 1991, she entered private practice in London chambers before returning to the Caribbean in 1994.Ramsay-Hale has been Crown Counsel, Judge of the Family Court and Resident Magistrate in Jamaica before she moved to Cayman Islands as Magistrate in 1998. She was appointed Chief Magistrate in 2008 and has acted a Judge of the Grand Court. She had been guest law lecturer in Cayman Islands and the United States. She is, at present, the Caribbean regional member of the Council of the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association.
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
Name: Helen Mary Garlick
Occupation:
Barrister (Called to Middle Temple 1974)
Specialisation:
Serious and Complex Fraud, Bribery & Corruption, financial market offences, asset forfeiture, tracing and confiscation
Ancillary achievements
Lecturing on commercial fraud, bribery and corruption.
A member of the Board of TI UK.
A member of the Corruption Hunters Network, supported by the Norwegian Government, an international group of current and former head of anti corruption bodies.
Summary of experience
Helen has spent the majority of her career in the Government Legal Service. She joined the Serious Fraud Office on its inception in 1988, specialising in extradition and mutual legal assistance. Helen worked as an investigating lawyer on some of the SFO's earliest landmark cases including Barlow Clowes and BCCI.
She led the SFO's Mutual Legal Assistance Unit, working on investigations such as Abacha (Nigeria), Berlusconi (Italy), Anglo Leasing (Kenya) and Chiluba (Zambia). She also led an Operational Division responsible for the investigation and prosecution of a number of high profile and complex fraud cases.
Helen was appointed as the first Head of the SFO's Overseas Corruption Unit and led the BAE investigation from its start in1984, until she left in mid 2008. She also oversaw the investigations into the overseas corruption cases of Balfour Beatty, Innospec, Mabey and Johnson and De Puy.
On leaving the SFO Helen was appointed as part of a team of experts, funded jointly by DFID and the Norwegian government to carry out an assessment of anti-corruption capacity and training in Tanzania. She was also contracted to carry out an assignment in Bangladesh, in the lead up to the last general elections, advising the anti-corruption authority on international investigations and the preparation of Letters of Request in some particularly sensitive cases.
Helen is currently appointed as Special Prosecutor to the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands, leading a large team of investigators and lawyers investigating allegations of government corruption, arising from the Report the Commission of Inquiry lead by Sir Robin Auld QC Public Inquiry in 2008.
She has recently been appointed to the Board of Transparency International UK.
Helen is especially proud of her membership of the Corruption Hunters’ Network, an international group of current and former senior prosecutors and heads of anti corruption bodies, sponsored and funded by the Norwegian Government. Membership is by personal invitation. The group meets twice a year and maintains frequent contact in the intervals between meetings. Its members come from countries as diverse as Southern Sudan, Bangladesh, Argentina, Costa Rica and Madagascar.
Notable Cases
Abacha
The Government of Nigeria instituted wide ranging criminal investigations and asset recovery applications in Switzerland and the UK in pursuit of money stolen from the state during the kleptocracy of the former President General Sani Abacha and his family and associates. The Abacha family brought lengthy judicial review proceedings to challenge the MLA process The process took several years, the JR became a leading case on the principle and practice of MLA and the inter relationship of civil and criminal proceedings and the asset tracing investigation resulted in an examination of the money laundering practices of UK banks that was instrumental in the reforms of the Proceeds of Crime Act and Regulations.
Berlusconi
The prosecuting authorities in Milan have pursued investigations into tax fraud and corruption by Silvio Berlusconi for several years. Important aspects of the case have involved investigations in London and the Isle of Man. Helen worked closely with the prosecutors, advising them on the most effective use of the compulsory powers under s 2 of the Criminal Justice Act, obtaining documents and carrying out interviews on their behalf.
BAE
The investigation into corruption by BAE Systems in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere was conducted by a team of lawyers and investigators who reported to her between 2004 and 2008. She oversaw and gave evidence in the Judicial Review into the decision by the Director to discontinue the Saudi investigation. She also oversaw the investigations in South Africa and Tanzania and working with the NPA and the PCCB in those jurisdictions. She also worked together with Eurojust in the Hague to secure maximum co operation from European law enforcement, including Switzerland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Austria and Sweden
