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TT hires English QC for fishing dispute *LINK*

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ENGLISH Queen's Counsel Ian Brownlie has been chosen as a member of the Arbitrarial Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in the fishing and maritime dispute between Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. Brownlie is TT's nominee on the tribunal. Brownlie comes from Blackstone Chambers in London. His nomination was made without prejudice to any position that TT may take concerning the jurisdiction of the Arbitrarial Tribunal, Newsday learnt. Attorney General John Jeremie is the agent for TT, while solicitor John Almeida, of the English law firm, Charles Russell and Co, is the co-agent. Barbados has nominated its Attorney General Mia Mottley as that country's agent.

The co-agent for Barbados is Englishman Robert Volterra, who lives in London. Barbados has appointed Vaughan Lowe, Chichele Professor of International Law, at Oxford University as a member of the Tribunal to hear the arbitration matter. The dispute relates to the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados wants a single unified maritime boundary line, promising to give more details of its claim at the stage of the arbitration hearing. On February 7, two Bajan fishermen were caught by the Coast Guard illegally fishing in Tobago waters. They were taken to court two days later, but freed after the court prosecutor informed the court he had instructions not to proceed with the case against the Bajans. The fishermen left Tobago with their catch.

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