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Name
  
Karl Hudson-Phillips

Role
  
Attorney


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Died
  
January 16, 2014, London, United Kingdom

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Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips, ORTT, QC (20 April 1933 – 16 January 2014) was an Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago and a judge of the International Criminal Court. He was also lead counsel in the murder trial of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.

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Biography

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Hudson-Phillips attended Tranquillity School and Queen’s Royal College in Port of Spain, Trinidad, before going to England to read law at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1959, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, London. He returned to Trinidad and Tobago where he established a distinguished legal practice and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1970. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 1976. Between 1969 and 1973, he served as Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs. In this capacity, he was associated with the dreaded "Public Order Act" which was proposed by the People's National Movement (PNM) government in response to the Black Power riots and Army Mutiny of 1970. In 1973, he fell out of favour with then Prime Minister Eric Williams (for openly campaigning to replace Williams, who had spoken about retirement). This ended his political career in the PNM.

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In 1974, Hudson-Phillips founded the National Land Tenants and Ratepayers Association of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1980, he founded the Organisation for National Reconstruction (ONR), a political party which contested the 1981 General Elections. Despite getting the second-highest vote tally in the election, the ONR failed to secure a single seat in Parliament. The ONR went on to form an accommodation with the National Alliance to contest the 1983 local government elections, and went on the merge with those parties to form the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR). Hudson-Phillips and Basdeo Panday, as the leaders of the two largest factions in what became the NAR, decided to step aside and allow A. N. R. Robinson, leader of one of the smaller parties, to become party leader. The NAR contested the 1986 general elections and won 33 of the 36 seats in Parliament. Hudson-Phillips did not take an active role in the party after the election.

In addition to the Grenada murder trial, Hudson-Phillips has been involved in many high-profile cases throughout the Caribbean, as both Prosecutor and Defender. In 1999, he was elected President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

In February 2003, Hudson-Phillips was elected to the first ever bench of International Criminal Court judges. As "dean of the judges", he chaired the first meetings of judges before the election of the Presidency. He also contributed actively to the drafting of the Regulations of the Court. He resigned from the court for personal reasons on 14 March 2007.

On 23 July 2010, Sihasak Phuangketkeow, President of the UN Human Rights Council, announced that Hudson-Phillips would head a panel of experts to investigate whether Israel's Gaza flotilla raid on 31 May 2010 breached international law. Along with Hudson-Phillips, the panel includes Briton Desmond Lorenz de Silva and Malaysian Mary Shanthi Dairiam.

Hudson-Phillips died in London on 15 January 2014.

Publications

  • Hudson-Phillips, K. 1968. The Historical Development of the Settlement of Trade Disputes in Trinidad and Tobago. I.L.O. Monograph.
  • Hudson-Phillips, K. 1987. A Case for Greater Public Participation in the Legislative Process. Statute Law Review.
  • Hudson-Phillips, K. 1997. Law and Practice of Arbitration in Trinidad and Tobago. International Commercial Arbitration Bulletin.
  • References

    Karl Hudson-Phillips Wikipedia