Sir Burton P. C. Hall, KSS, KHS is a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, a position he was elected to in August, 2009.
Education
Hall received his early education at Street John"s College High School, Nassau, The Bahamas, graduating in 1964, then returning in 1965 to pursue General Certificate of Education Advanced Level. He received an Bachelor of Laws degree with upper-second-class honours from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados in 1974. and then attended the Council of Legal (West Indies) at the Norman Manley Law School in Mona, Jamaica where he graduated in 1976 with a Certificate in Legal.
Career
Hall served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas on 1 February 1991 and then as a Justice of Court of Appeal of The Bahamas from April 1997. On 5 September 2001 he was confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas (de facto head of the judiciary of the Bahamas), a position he occupied until 2009. He received an Bachelor of Laws degree with upper-second-class honours from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados in 1974.
Hall was admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas on October 6, 1976, and then practised as an Assistant Counsel at the Office of the Attorney-General of The Bahamas.
He was appointed to act as a Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate from August, 1978, to August, 1980. He then returned to the Office of the Attorney-General and was elevated to Crown Counsel.
He became Acting Solicitor-General of The Bahamas in 1983, being confirmed to the post in 1984. He was appointed Chairman of the 1998 National Crime Commission of The Bahamas and on 4 August 1999 was appointed as the first Bahamian judge on the Inter-American Development Bank Administration Tribunal.
In 2002, he became a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Institute, Dalhousie University School of Law.
Membership
Hall is a member of the Commonwealth Magistrates" and Judges" Association, Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the International Law Association, and holds associate membership in the American Bar Association (Associate Member) and the Canadian Bar Association (Associate Member).