Career
He graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (upper second class honours) from the University of the West Indies in 1980. He worked as an engineer at Trintoplan Consultants Limited in Trinidad and at Schlumberger in Libya. [1]
Archie then studied law at the Solent University in Southampton,England,receiving his LLB in 1984. He received his Legal Education Certificate at Hugh Wooding Law School in St Augustine. [1] He was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1986. [2] Archie worked initially for Clarke and Company. [1] He then served as State Counsel and Senior Crown Counsel for the governments of Trinidad and Tobago,the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands. He was Solicitor General of the Cayman Islands and acted on occasion as the Attorney General. [1]
On 1 March 1998,he was appointed a puisine judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature. He became a Justice of Appeal on 2 April 2004,and chief justice on 24 January 2008. He is the eighth chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago and the youngest person to have taken the role. He is Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission,President of the Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute,and a fellow of the Board of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. [1] In 2013,he received the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. [2]
In 2018,he lost a legal battle to prevent the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) from investigating allegations over his "close ties" to Dillian Johnson,a gay man [7] and convicted felon who fled Trinidad after surviving an attempted shooting. [8] LATT conducted its investigation and voted to report Archie to the Prime Minister,who has sole authority in Trinidad and Tobago for recommending discipline and removal of judges. Prime Minister Keith Rowley declined to pursue impeachment,saying that he had been advised there was a "lack of evidence". [9]
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