Vigel Paul and Justice Danielle Thompson have been sworn in as two new Puisne Judges.
President Christine Carla Kangaloo administered the oaths. Chief Justice Mr Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh attended.
Justice Paul previously served as a Master of the High Court in the Judiciary’s Family and Children Division. He obtained a Second Class Honours LLB from the University of London in 1998 and completed his Legal Education Certificate at the Hugh Wooding Law School. He was admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law in Trinidad and Tobago on October 20, 2000.
His career includes private practice at Dipnarine Rampersad and Co and Lex Caribbean, service as Senior Legal Officer at the Environmental Management Authority, and appointments as Assistant Registrar and Deputy Marshal. Since 2017, he served as Master of the High Court in the Family and Children Division and, from 2018, as Presiding Judicial Officer at the Children Drug Treatment Court (North). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of several regional and international judicial associations.
Madame Justice Thompson most recently served as an Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. She earned an Upper Second Honours LLB from the Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies in 2005 and her Legal Education Certificate in 2007. In 2021, she completed an MSc in Criminal Justice Policy with distinction at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Trinidad and Tobago Chevening Scholar.
Her professional background includes work as a Judicial Research Assistant in the Magistracy, the Court of Appeal and the Family Court, followed by service at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, where she rose to Assistant Director in 2022. She has also represented Trinidad and Tobago in hockey at the Under-21 Pan American tournament and remains active in the sport through the Paragon Hockey Club.
