Westmin R.A. James is a national of Trinidad and Tobago and currently an acting Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize. He is an Attorney at Law in Barbados, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago. He holds a Bachelors of Law Degree with First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and a Masters of Law Degree with Honours in International Commercial and Trade Law from the University of Cambridge. He is also a Lecturer at, the UWI Cave Hill Campus and a former Deputy Dean (Academic and Student Affairs), and a former Deputy Dean (Postgraduate Studies & Research). He lectures Constitutional Law, Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Law, International Human Rights, and Employment Law. While at the Faculty besides his teaching duties he was Litigation Coordinator for the UWI Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP) whose objective it is to promote human rights and social justice in the Caribbean through human rights litigation. He is also one of the first five judges appointed to the Caribbean Community Administrative Tribunal (CCAT) an impartial and independent judicial body that provides staff members of the CARICOM Secretariat and related Institutions with a forum for the adjudication of any employment disputes after the exhausted the internal dispute procedures. He has also written and published in the area of constitutional law and human rights and co-authored a book with Prof Alina Kaczorowska-Ireland on Commonwealth Caribbean Law and Procedure.

Members of the Tribunal