Sir Stanley Eugene Gomes was a Guyanese Judge who was Chief Justice of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

He was appointed Attorney General of the Leeward Islands before August 1945.[1] He then served as Chief Justice of Barbados from 1957 to 1958 and Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 1958 to 1960.[2] He was knighted in 1959.[3]

In August 1961 he was appointed Chief Justice of the newly established West Indies Federation.[4] The Federation was dissolved in May 1962.

References

  1. ^ "No. 37238". The London Gazette. 24 August 1945. p. 4298.
  2. ^ "No. 41557". The London Gazette. 25 November 1958. p. 7215.
  3. ^ "No. 41589". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 November 1958. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Appointment of the Chief Justice of the Federation". The West Indies Gazette. Governor General. 14 August 1961. p. 93. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
Legal offices Preceded bySir Ernest Allan Collymore Chief Justice of Barbados 1957–58 Succeeded bySir Kenneth Sievewright Stoby Preceded byJoseph Leon Mathieu Perez Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago 1958–60 Succeeded byArthur Hugh McShine Preceded byNew post Chief Justice of the West Indies Federation 1961–62 Succeeded byPost abolished
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