He has been appointed to the post, along with Sir John Nutting QC, who was also sworn in last week, after spending 19 years as a Court of Appeal judge in the Island.
And this week he praised the Island’s judiciary, the Jurats, advocates and the backroom staff who keep the courts running.
He said: ‘On the whole, the Jersey advocates can compete with the best. If you compare their experience to that of those in the mainland, I think you have to mature more quickly as an advocate here. In Jersey they probably deal with more complex cases earlier on than advocates in England.
‘And the whole concept of Jurats – having highly qualified lay people sitting on cases – is very interesting to my mind and is an admirable system.’
