Called to the bar!
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Sunday | July 27, 2008
Daviot Kelly, Staff Reporter
Chief Justice Zaila McCalla (left) greets noted attorney Hilary Phillips, QC, at the Jamaican Bar Association's banquet held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Thursday, July 24. - photos by Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer
Andrea Rattray glows in this number.
If any of the guests at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Thursday night were looking for legal counsel, it was simply a matter of taking his or her pick at the Jamaican Bar Association's (JBA) annual banquet.
This year the members honoured two more luminaries - retired president of the Court of Appeal Justice Paul Harrison and attorney Emile George, QC. President of the JBA Jacqueline Samuels-Brown said the fact they were honouring persons from the Bench and from the Bar proved that though judges and lawyers were in separate branches, they represented one noble profession.
Justice Harrison was lauded for his fairness, willingness to listen, compassion, balance and complete integrity. He served as clerk of the court in the St Andrew Resident Magistrate's (RM) court before becoming an RM in 1974.
flair for the dramatic
Dominican-born George was called to the bar in 1955 and appeared in RM courts in civil and criminal matters. In the courtroom he was articulate, with a flair for the dramatic, but neverimpudent.
Guests out included Opposition spokesman on National Security Dr Peter Phillips, John Leiba, Justice Howard Cooke Jr and wife Heather, Earl Witter, Justice C. Dennis Morrison, Richard Mahfood, Cordel Green, Crafton Miller, Shirley Richards, Sherry-Ann McGregor, Andrea and Bernice Moore, Monique Cohen, Stacia Pinnock, Stuart Fisher, Elombe Mottley and wife Donna Scott-Mottley, Elizabeth Salmon, Tavia Dunn, Grace Lindo, Sanya Young, Charles and Lisa Johnston, Oswest Senior-Smith, Llewelyn Bailey, Norman Wright, Anthony and Jean Bell, Franklin Halliburton and Shauna-Kaye Hanson.
The petite Shawn Wilkinson, attorney for Jamaicans For Justice, was coaxed to pose for our social pages, but why was she?
We could not resist Sherise Gayle, attorney at Nicholson Phil-lips, in her black and white.
President of the Court of Appeal Justice Seymour Panton has beauty on both sides as he lymes with attorneys Deborah Martin (left) and Sharon Usim at the dinner.
Jamaican Bar Association annual dinner held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on Thursday July 24, 2008.
Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne chats with Justice Paul Harrison (right) and Eric Frater.
President of the Jamaican Bar Association Jacqueline Samuels-Brown is flanked by honourees Emil George, QC (left), and Justice Paul Harrison.
