The third of the new three-strong team of Turks and Caicos Islands Supreme Court Justices, Joan Joyner, following her swearing in by His Excellency
Governor Ric Todd at 3.00pm on Friday 9 Dec 2011 at the Governor’s Office, Grand Turk.
The appointments follow on from The Governor’s acceptance of the Judicial Service Commission’s recommendations for the new top team.
Joan Joyner: Joyner is well known as the present Chief Magistrate of the TCI and has also served in this jurisdiction as Senior Crown Counsel and
Resident Magistrate. Joyner was called to the Jamaica bar in 1982 having qualified in law from the University of the West Indies and the Norman
Manley Law School. She had already obtained a bachelor of arts degree in English at the Marquette University, Milwaukee. She has been admitted as
an attorney to the Jamaica and Texas bars.
After working in various legal roles in Jamaica, Joyner worked in TCI as Senior Crown Counsel followed by Director of Public Prosecutions in St.
Kitts-Nevis and Senior Crown Counsel in the British Virgin Islands. After a short period in private practice in Texas, she was appointed Chief
Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Dominica before her appointment as Resident Magistrate on Grand Turk. She was appointed Chief Magistrate in
2008 when Justice Richard Williams was made a judge of the Supreme Court.
Edwin Goldsbrough: Goldsbrough was born and educated in England. He was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1980
and obtained a post graduate Diploma in Business Administration in 1988. Having worked in courts administration in England for some years, he
worked abroad in various judicial and advisory roles. These included advising on the establishment of the Judicial College of Zimbabwe and the
training of newly appointed Judges, training officer and Senior Crown Counsel on St Helena, Supreme Court and Appeal Court Judge of the Republic
of Vanuatu and, for the last six years, High Court Judge, Head of the Civil Division and acting President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon
Islands. He also chaired the National Judiciary IT working group and devised and delivered training on new legislation for judicial officers.
Margaret Ramsay-Hale: Ramsay-Hale is from Jamaica where she was educated until attending school in England to take her GCE A-levels. She obtained a
bachelor of science in Economics at the London School of Economics and a bachelor of law’s degree from the University of the West Indies. Following
completing her legal education at the Norman Manley Law School in 1991, she entered private practice in London chambers before returning to the Caribbean in
1994.Ramsay-Hale has been Crown Counsel, Judge of the Family Court and Resident Magistrate in Jamaica before she moved to Cayman Islands as
Magistrate in 1998. She was appointed Chief Magistrate in 2008 and has acted a Judge of the Grand Court. She had been guest law lecturer in Cayman Islands and the United States. She is, at present, the Caribbean regional member of the Council of the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association.
