§ Mr. MackinlayTo ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answers of 7 February 2000,Official Report, columns 3–4W, (1) which judges have served on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, who were nominated on the advice of a head of Government of another Commonwealth country in the past twenty years; [109383]
(2) if he will list the people from other countries of the Commonwealth who have been accorded membership of the Privy Council in the past 20 years; which of these were eligible for membership of the Judicial Committee; and which served on the Judicial Committee subsequently. [109384]
§ The Prime Minister[holding answer 10 February 2000]: I understand that of those persons appointed to the Privy Council in the last 20 years the following have actually served on the Judicial Committee by virtue of holding or having held judicial office in a superior court outside the United Kingdom:
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Privy Councillor Sir Gordon Bisson New Zealand Court of Appeal Sir Maurice Casey New Zealand Court of Appeal Sir Thomas Eichelbaum New Zealand Court of Appeal Sir Thomas Floissac East Caribbean Supreme Court Thomas Gault New Zealand Court of Appeal Telford Georges Bahamas Court of Appeal Sir Michael Hardie Boys New Zealand Court of Appeal John Henry New Zealand Court of Appeal Sir Duncan McMullin New Zealand Court of Appeal Edward Zacca Supreme Court of Jamaica Of course, some Privy Councillors appointed prior to 1980 will also have served on the Judicial Committee.
In the last 20 years, the following people from countries of the Commonwealth other than the UK have been accorded membership of the Privy Council:
Privy Councillor Duncan MacIntyre New Zealand Lancelot Raymond Adams-Schneider New Zealand Sir Duncan McMullin1 New Zealand Edward Phillip George Seaga Jamaica Sir Julius Chan Papua New Guinea Allan Louisy Saint Lucia Robert Milton Cato St. Vincent and the Grenadines David Spence Thomson New Zealand Sir Edward Somers1 New Zealand Sir Zelman Cowen Australia George Cadle Price Belize Tomasi Puapua Tuvalu Vere Cornwall Bird Antigua and Barbuda John George Meluin Compton St. Lucia David Lange New Zealand Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds St. Kitts and Nevis Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer New Zealand Robert James Tizard New Zealand Fraser MacDonald Colman New Zealand James Fitz-Allen Mitchell St. Vincent and the Grenadines Manuel Esquivel Belize Sir Maurice Casey1 New Zealand Telford Georges1 Bahamas Herbert Augustus Blaize Grenada Anerood Jugnauth Mauritius Paias Wingti Papua New Guinea Francis Duncan O'Flynn New Zealand Sir Gordon Bisson1 New Zealand Ezekiel Alebua Solomon Islands Jonathan Lucas Hunt New Zealand Sir Michael Hardie Boys1 New Zealand Sir Thomas Eichelbaum New Zealand Lainagan Namaliu Papua New Guinea Michael Norman Manley Jamaica Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Barbados Helen Elizabeth Clark New Zealand Michael Kenneth Moore New Zealand Bikenibeu Paeniu Tuvalu Sir Nicholas Alexander Braithwaite Grenada James Brendan Bolger New Zealand Donald Charles McKinnon New Zealand William Francis Birch New Zealand Thomas Munro Gault1 New Zealand Ian Lloyd McKay1 New Zealand John Steele Henry1 New Zealand Edmund Walter Thomas1 New Zealand Percival Noel James Patterson Jamaica Edward Zacca1 Jamaica Sir Vincent Floissac1 St. Lucia Hubert Ingraham Bahamas Owen Seymour Arthur Barbados Kamuta Latasi Tuvalu Jennifer Mary Shipley New Zealand Winston Raymond Peters New Zealand Douglas Arthur Montrose Graham New Zealand Paul Clayton East New Zealand Sir Kenneth James Keith1 New Zealand Peter Blanchard1 New Zealand Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping1 New Zealand Wyatt Beetham Creech New Zealand Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias1 New Zealand Simon Upton New Zealand 1 Judges who are or were eligible for membership of the Judicial Committee