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Mr Justice Seymour Radcliffe Panton, O.J., CD

1968 - Called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn

1969 - - Clerk of the Courts

1971 - 1973 - Crown Counsel

1973 - 1977 - Legal Assistant to the Attorney-General, Cayman Islands

1976 - Trained as legislative draftsman

1977 - 1978 - Senior Crown Counsel, Cayman Islands

1978 - 1986 - Resident Magistrate, Jamaica

1981 - present - Lay Preacher in the Methodist Church

1982 - 1988 - Council Member, Commonwealth

Magistrates and Judges Association

1983 - 1990 - Associate tutor at the Norman Manley Law School

1989 - 1999 - President, Rusea’s Old Students’ Association

1986 - 1999 - Puisne Judge

1999 - 2007 - Jusdge of the Court of Appeal

2001 - 2007 - Acted as Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on several occasions

2007 - present - President of the Court of Appeal