Gail Alexan­der

Jus­tice Min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Christlyn Moore will take the oath of of­fice at 1.30 pm to­day at Knowsley, Port-of-Spain. She will re­ceive the oath of of­fice from act­ing Pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Hamel-Smith in the pres­ence of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar. Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced Moore's ap­point­ment last Thurs­day af­ter she re­vealed she had fired for­mer min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney.

The swear­ing-in was put on hold since last Fri­day since Moore had to fi­nalise arrange­ments for clients in her le­gal prac­tice, Gov­ern­ment sources said . Moore holds an LLB (Hons) from UWI and is a grad­u­ate of the Hugh Wood­ing Law School and Bish­op's High School, To­ba­go. She was al­so a tu­tor at the law school. Ad­mit­ted to the bar in 1995, she has ap­peared for the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al in sev­er­al mat­ters.

The To­ba­go-born Moore ini­tial­ly worked as a crim­i­nal de­fence ad­vo­cate un­til 1999, when she shift­ed fo­cus to civ­il lit­i­ga­tion and prac­tised ex­clu­sive­ly be­fore the High Court and the Court of Ap­peal. She has been an at­tor­ney to var­i­ous state en­ter­pris­es and in­struct­ing at­tor­ney to the com­mis­sion of en­quiry in­to the events sur­round­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup.