Former teacher of Sandy Point High School and wife, Sir Hugh and Claudette Lady Rawlins to be honored by SPBS at the 7th Annual Banquet in New York
August 1st, 2017 -- If you attended SPBS banquet in 2013 you would know our dual honorees. After attending the banquet and upon his return home, we received a note from him and this is what it said in part. “Please accept our most profound appreciation for inviting our Patronage for the occasion, as well as for all that was done to facilitate our participation. It was an inspiring time. There are just 3 matters: the first is my wish, on behalf of Lady Rawlins and I, to donate US$2,000 to the Society each year towards its Scholarship Fund. The second is to donate the money for the trophies for the persons who are honored each year.”
The Honourable Sir Hugh Rawlins is a Judge of the ILO International Administrative (Appellate) Tribunal in Geneva, Switzerland and was the Course Director, LLM Legislative Drafting at the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies until 2012. He assumed these Offices upon retirement as Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 2012, to which Office he was appointed in April 2008. He had served as Justice of Appeal of that Court from 2005 to 2008; a High Court Judge of Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, the British Virgin Islands, St. Lucia and Dominica and was a Master of the Court from August 2000 to January 2002. Sir Hugh was the Chairman of the Judicial Ethics Committee and of the Judicial Education Institute of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. He was also a Member of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Prior to embarking upon a judicial career, Sir Hugh had a career of public service as a Teacher; Assistant Secretary; Head of Department and Acting Permanent Secretary. After he became a legal practitioner, he held the Offices of Crown Counsel; Registrar of the Supreme Court and Additional Magistrate; Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary in St. Kitts/Nevis. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II conferred the Honour of the Order of Knight Bachelor upon him in March 2012.
Sir Hugh holds BA, LLB and LLM degrees from the University of the West Indies and the Certificate in Legal Education from the Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica. He was a UNITAR Fellow at The Hague Academy of International Law, Holland, and the International Court of Justice and pursued a program in Public Law and Legislative Drafting on a British Development Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He became an Associate Fellow of the Society of that Institute in 1995 and has been a Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Educational Institute based at Dalhousie University in Canada since 2004.
Sir Hugh has published academically in Regional and International Law Journals in Constitutional and Public Law and International Commercial Contracts.
Claudette Lady Rawlins ended her School education at the Alexandra Secondary School and the Barbados Community College. She first worked at the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority and then at the Central Bank of Barbados from its inception in various capacities and departments of the Bank, ending as a Bank Inspector. She was then employed in the Finance Department at the Head Office of Shell Antilles & Guianas Limited again working in various capacities in the Accounting Department. Her career culminated at that company as a Management Accountant. Lady Rawlins was later employed as the Client Accountant at KPMG and Belmont Trust when she resided in the British Virgin Islands. After moving to St. Lucia she was employed as Corporate Manager for Corporate Services at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, St. Lucia. She was then appointed as a Director for the Corporate Services Division and remained there until 2012.
Lady Rawlins is a professional Accountant and holds the CPA/CGA designation and is a Member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. She also holds the FCIS and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Canada.
SPBS is most grateful to Sir Hugh and Claudette Lady Rawlins for their kind generosity and is pleased to be honoring them both with our Distinguished Humanitarian award.
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