Referee in New York Courts Is Named Barbados Chief Justice
The new chief justice of Barbados got much of his legal experience in New York, where he practiced law and worked in the New York State court system for more than 20 years.
Marston C. D. Gibson will begin the new job Sept. 1, report the New York Times City Room blog and the New York Law Journal. His official title, the Times says, is chief judge of the High Court, the country’s top trial court, and president of the Court of Appeal, an intermediate appeals court. (The top appeals court is the Caribbean Court of Justice on the island of Trinidad.)
Gibson was a law professor in Barbados before coming to New York in 1987. He spent 13 years in his most recent job working as a special referee overseeing civil trials in state courts in Nassau County.
Gibson says he will help implement new civil procedure laws in Barbados that are similar to New York rules. The changes provide for alternative dispute resolution, summary judgment and the use of referees, he told the Times. “I suppose I have a bit of an advantage because the concepts in the rules are very familiar to me,” he said.
