Justice David Hayton Caribbean Court of Justice

The Hon Mr Justice David Hayton LLB, LLD (Newcastle Univ), MA, LLD (Cantab), TEP (Hon), Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, has been a Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice since 2005. He was formerly a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and then a Professor of Law at King’s College, London University, while practising as a Chancery barrister and sitting part-time as a judge in London and The Bahamas. He headed the UK delegation to The Hague Conference on Private International Law for the Trusts Convention, 1985, and for the Convention on Succession to Deceaseds’ Estates, 1989. He was Deputy Chair of the Trust Law Committee (of England & Wales) from its inception in 1994 till 2005 and was on the UK Higher Education Funding Council’s Law Panel grading Law Schools for the 1996-2001 Research Assessment Exercise. While well-known for Underhill & Hayton on Trusts, as author or editor he has produced ten books in the areas of trusts, property, succession and tax and has published over 50 papers including four in the Law Quarterly Review.