HC Deb 15 February 2000 vol 344 cc459-60W
Mr. Mackinlay

To 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:

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