NEWSDAY MAY 26, 2 K 14 MY CONDOLENCES... Search for: spacer Judge drops dead on cricket field Monday, May 26 2014 The legal fraternity is mourning the death of High Court Judge Justice William Guy Hannays who collapsed and died while playing a game of cricket at a recreation ground in St Joseph yesterday. Reports are that Hannays was on a team of fellow Judges playing against lawyers. The match is one which has become traditional. Newsday was told Hannays, who was appointed to the Bench in October last year, was rushed to the Medical Associates Hospital in St Joseph but was unresponsive by the time he arrived. Chief Justice Ivor Archie was among the first to rush to the medical institution upon hearing the news. Hannays was appointed to the Bench with 32 years experience as a practicing attorney, having been admitted to practise as a Solicitor in 1981 he joined the well-known former law firm of Clarke, Hannays & Co. In 1985, he formed his own law firm of Hannays & Co with his wife Joanne, uncle David Hannays and Bholan Sharma. The firm’s name was later changed to Guy Hannays & Co. He has had a long and varied civil law practice as an attorney-at-law, acting both as an Instructing as well as an advocate attorney-at-law. Hannays obtained his LLB degree in 1978 from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus and then went to the Hugh Wooding Law School, where he obtained his Legal Education Certificate in 1981. He is a former Chairman of First Citizens Bank Limited and he has also sat as a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Law Association and on the National Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He has always had a keen interest in cricket and is a past President of the Trinidad and Tobago Lawyers’ Cricket Association and West Indies Lawyers’ Cricket Association respectively. He previously served as past President of the Trinity College Alumni Association and the Beryl Mc Burnie Foundation for the Arts. Hannays was the son of the late Justice Jessel Hannays and the grandson of the late Sir Courtenay Hannays, QC.
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 11:46:21 +0000
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