Justice P. L. Ulric Cross

Date and Place of Birth: 1 May 1917, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies

Nationality: Citizen of Trinidad and Tobago

Marital Status: Married

Education: St. Mary's College, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Appointments

1941 -47 War Service, Royal Air Force (Bomber Command Navigation) Attained rank of Squadron Leader

1949 Called to the Bar (Middle Temple, London)

1949 - 53 Legal Adviser to the Controller of Imports and Exports, Trinidad Lecturer in Trade Union History and Trade Union Law, Extra Mural Department, University of the West Indies

1953 - 57 Talks Producer, BBC, London

1958 - 60 Crown Counsel and Senior Crown Counsel, Ghana

Lecturer in Criminal Law, Ghana School of Law

1960 - 61 Assistant Attorney General, West Cameroon

1961 - 66 Attorney General, West Cameroon

Member of the Cabinet, the House of Chiefs and the House of Assembly Avocat-General, Federal Court of Justice of the Republic of Cameroon

1967 - 68 Judge of the High Court of Tanzania

1968 - 70 Chairman of the Permanent Labour Tribunal, Tanzania

Member of the East African Industrial Court

(Chairmanship rotates among the three members)

1970 - 74 Professor of Law, University of Dar-es-Salaam

Lecturer in Criminal Procedure and the Law of Evidence

Member of the Examiners' Board, Institute of Finance Management, Tanzania

Member of the East African Common Market Tribunal (Chairman: E. Lauterpacht, Esq., QC)

1971 -79 Judge of the High Court, Trinidad & Tobago

1979 – 82 Judge of the Court of Appeal, Trinidad & Tobago

1982 - 83 Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, Trinidad

1983 - Chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation.

Decorations:

1. Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

2. Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

3. Order of Merit - First Class, Federal Republic of Cameroon

4. Order of Valour, Federal Republic of Cameroon

Other Qualifications:

External Examiner, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Haile

Selassie University, Ethiopia.

Papers Published:

'First Instance Civil Procedure in Anglophonic Africa (Conference at University of Nairobi sponsored by the Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)

'The Administration of Legal Systems in Developing Countires' (Law and Development Seminar at the Univesity of Papua New Guinea)