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Attorneys honour law veterans

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Bovell
Hamilton
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The JamaicaN Bar Association (JBA) will tomorrow host its annual banquet.

Each year the members of the association recognise and honour persons from the judiciary and from the legal fraternity who have served in their profession with distinction and excellence, both locally and internationally.

In a release the JBA said this year, citations would be presented to retired justice Ferdinand Algernon Smith; Christopher David Rhys Bovell; and Howard Randolph Hamilton.

Former judge

Smith is a former judge ofboth the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal and tutor at the Norman Manley Law School.

A former Jamaica Labour Party senator, Bovell, who currently serves as a consultant with law firm DunnCox, is an expert in the field of corporate and commercial law and listed as one of the leading lawyers in Jamaica by two international bodies that rank lawyers worldwide.

During Hamilton's 52 years of service in the legal profession, he served as the first public defender, a former chair of the National AIDS Committee and the National Initiative for Street Children and Adoption Board.

The banquet will be held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.