Bermuda's Judge Wade-Miller elected head of Commonwealth body
Published by Admin on October 9th, 2009
BERMUDA — Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 — [Bermuda Wired]: JUSTICE Norma Wade-Miller, Bermuda’s most senior Puisne Judge, is now also President of the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association [CMJA].
Mrs. Justice Wade-Miller was elected at the organization’s 15th Triennial Conference in the Turks and Caicos Islands on September 30. The CMJA promotes the principle of independence of the judiciary throughout the Commonwealth.
In her acceptance speech as newly-elected President, the judge emphasized that the CMJA was “one of very few (organizations) in the world which recognizes and acts upon the belief that an independent and watchful judiciary is essential to the health of any democratic society.”
For the past three years she has been head of the Caribbean Regional Section of the CMJA. In 2007 she organized a regional conference, attracting hundreds of delegates to Bermuda.
The theme of this year’s CMJA conference in Turks and Caicos was ‘Justice for the Next Generation: the Promotion and Protection of Judicial Independence and a Colloquium on the Rights of the Child’.
In her paper to Conference, Justice Wade-Miller reflected on the ways in which the judicial systems in the Commonwealth could best help children who came before them.
She drew on her recent experience as Chair of the Law Reform Sub-Committee on Family Law Reform, which has recently sent major recommendations to Government.
Mrs. Justice Wade-Miller was elected at the organization’s 15th Triennial Conference in the Turks and Caicos Islands on September 30. The CMJA promotes the principle of independence of the judiciary throughout the Commonwealth.
In her acceptance speech as newly-elected President, the judge emphasized that the CMJA was “one of very few (organizations) in the world which recognizes and acts upon the belief that an independent and watchful judiciary is essential to the health of any democratic society.”
For the past three years she has been head of the Caribbean Regional Section of the CMJA. In 2007 she organized a regional conference, attracting hundreds of delegates to Bermuda.
The theme of this year’s CMJA conference in Turks and Caicos was ‘Justice for the Next Generation: the Promotion and Protection of Judicial Independence and a Colloquium on the Rights of the Child’.
In her paper to Conference, Justice Wade-Miller reflected on the ways in which the judicial systems in the Commonwealth could best help children who came before them.
She drew on her recent experience as Chair of the Law Reform Sub-Committee on Family Law Reform, which has recently sent major recommendations to Government.
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