High Court Judge Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has been el­e­vat­ed to the Court of Ap­peal.

In a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day morn­ing, the Ju­di­cia­ry said that Boodoos­ingh had re­ceived his in­stru­ment of ap­point­ment from Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie.

Boodoos­ingh, who was ad­mit­ted to prac­tise as an at­tor­ney-at-law in 1992, was ap­point­ed as a judge in Sep­tem­ber 2007.

Be­fore join­ing the bench, Boodoos­ingh served as an ad­vo­cate at J. D. Sel­l­i­er and Com­pa­ny and as a State pros­e­cu­tor at the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP).

In 2001, Boodoos­ingh joined the Hugh Wood­ing Law School, where he served as Di­rec­tor of Tri­al Ad­vo­ca­cy and taught Ethics.

“He has con­duct­ed nu­mer­ous train­ing pro­grammes for lawyers, law stu­dents, po­lice of­fi­cers, im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers, court per­son­nel and school teach­ers, among oth­ers,” the re­lease said.

Boodoos­ingh, who holds a Mas­ter of Laws (Mer­it) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don, has writ­ten four books in­clud­ing a text­book on tri­al ad­vo­ca­cy.

In 2011, Boodoos­ingh blocked the ex­tra­di­tion of busi­ness­men Ish­war Gal­barans­ingh and Steve Fer­gu­son, who were want­ed in the Unit­ed States on fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing charges re­lat­ed to the con­struc­tion of the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Boodoos­ingh had ruled that Trinidad was the more ap­pro­pri­ate fo­rum for the men to be tried con­sid­er­ing the ma­jor­i­ty of of­fences are al­leged to have tak­en place in this ju­ris­dic­tion.

In an un­re­lat­ed case, last week, Boodoos­ingh up­held the on­go­ing pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions re­lat­ed to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic but ruled that pro­vi­sions for crim­i­nal charges for breach­ing guide­lines for places of wor­ship were not prop­er­ly in­cor­po­rat­ed.

The reg­u­la­tions have since been amend­ed to rec­ti­fy the is­sue.

In a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, Pres­i­dent of the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers Michael Rooplal con­grat­u­lat­ed Boodoos­ingh on his pro­mo­tion.

“Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh has dis­tin­guished him­self as a ju­rist, both in prac­tice and as a puisne judge. More­over, through his writ­ing and work at the Hugh Wood­ing Law School over the years, Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh has demon­strat­ed an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to le­gal ed­u­ca­tion,” Rooplal said.