We welcome the appointment of the new chief justice. Like his predecessors, Brian Moree comes to the job with good legal pedigree.

He achieved senior partner status in a leading multi-specialty legal firm, McKinney Bancroft & Hughes, and has previously served as an acting Supreme Court justice. And he served for a term as chairman of the Public Service Commission. He is not unfamiliar with the challenges of public administration. We wish him well in his new position, and we wish him success.

And he takes up his appointment at a time when the courts in The Bahamas are challenged with addressing an obstinate backlog of cases.

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