Justice Anthony Lucky has been re-elected as a judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.Lucky has obtained 142 out of a possible 149 votes from states which were present and voting at a meeting of state parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at the UN Headquarters in New York earlier this week.He is the second T&T national to be elected to the tribunal and succeeded the late Lennox Ballah as a judge.
Ambassador Elsa Kelly, of Argentina, was the second judge from the region to be elected. She was also the first woman to be elected to the tribunal.At the meeting five other judges from Asia, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe were also elected.The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, based in Hamburg, Germany, was established to settle disputes among member states arising from the interpretation and application of the Convention.T&T has made a declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the tribunal to settle any such disputes which may arise.