Burton P. C. Hall

Sir Burton Percival Curtis Hall, KCHS (born December 10, 1947, in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.

He previously served as a Justice of Court of Appeal of the Bahamas, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas, and a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Education Hall received his early education at St John's College, Nassau, Bahamas, graduating in 1964, before returning in 1965 to pursue GCE 'A' Levels.

He received an LL.B. degree with upper-second-class honours from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados in 1974. After which, he attended Norman Manley Law School in Mona, Jamaica where he graduated in 1976 with a Certificate in Legal Education.

He was appointed Chairman of the 1998 National Crime Commission of the Bahamas and, on 4 August 1999, was appointed as the first Bahamian judge on the Inter-American Development Bank Administration Tribunal.

International judicial career

In August 2009, Hall was elected to serve as a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He was the presiding judge in the case of the Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović.

Memberships In 2002, he became a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Institute, Dalhousie University School of Law.

Hall is a member of the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Association, Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the International Law Association, and holds associate membership in the American Bar Association (Associate Member) and the Canadian Bar Association (Associate Member).

Honours and awards

Hall was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001. In 2003, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester (KSS) by Pope John Paul II.

In 2004, Hall was awarded the Pelican Alumni Peer award as outstanding alumnus of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.