WOLFE

Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe has become the first serving Jamaica jurist to receive the signal tribute of being inducted as a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.

Chief Justice Wolfe travelled to London where the induction ceremony took place last November. Benchers who performed the induction ceremony were themselves retired judges of the High Court - retired law lords - who had distinguished themselves at the Bar.

The late Lord Denning was a Bencher at Lincoln's Inn.

Took over from

The Jamaican Chief Justice was appointed Chief Justice in 1996, taking over from former Chief Justice and Privy Councillor, Edward Zacca.

Prior to becoming Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wolfe served as Crown Counsel in the Office of the Director of Prosecutions, afterwards practising at the Private Bar in Montego Bay before his ascendancy to the Resident Magistrate's Court as a Resident Magistrate. Thereafter, he was appointed a Puisne Judge, then Judge of Appeal.

Mr. Justice Zacca has previously had the honour of being inducted as a Bencher but this was of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Another Jamaican jurist, the late Mr. Justice Lascelles Robotham a judge of the Jamaican High Court, was inducted as a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn while serving as Chief Justice in the Eastern Caribbean in the 1990s.