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Assistant Registrar
Kerrie Ann Olliverie
Ms. Kerrie Ann Olliverie was called to the
Bar in 2009. She obtained her Bachelor
of Laws from the University of the West
Indies. She decided on law studies follow-

Assistant Registrar Candice Cielto Jones

Moore and Associates before joining the
public sector, in particular, the Office of the
Attorney General, Chief State Solicitor’s
Department, beginning as a Legal Officer I
and working her way up to Legal Officer III.
Ms. Jones holds a LLM in Corporate and

Ms. Candice Cielto Jones is an Attorney at
Law with extensive experience in litigation,
contract and conveyancing. She was called
to the Bar in 2002 and spent a year in
private practice at the firm of Chrystlin

ing her first degree with First Class
Honours in History, also from UWI
which she pursued during 2002 – 2005.
She also obtained her Legal Education
Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law
School in 2009 immediately before
joining the Ministry of the Attorney

General, Chief State Solicitor’s department, as a Legal Officer where she gained
considerable experience in contentious
and non-contentious matters. Ms.
Olliverie is also a certified mediator.

Commercial Law, which she obtained in
2012. She graduated from the University of
the West Indies with a Bachelor of Laws
Degree in 2000, followed by a Certificate in
Legal Education, in 2002. Ms. Jones is also
a trained mediator.

Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute
Mr. Kent Jardine, Judicial Educator,
Mr. Kent Jardine was appointed Judicial
Educator of TTJEI in December 2012. He
obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and History from the University of the
West Indies in 1981 and, while working on
an M.Phil in Caribbean History, began
teaching as an assistant teacher at the
Matelot R.C. Primary School in 1985. After
the establishment of the Matelot Commu-

nity School, a pilot project in communitybased, rural education, Mr. Jardine returned
to urban life as a teacher at his alma mater,
St. Mary’s College from 1989 to 1997,
eventually returning to the Matelot School
for 10 years until 2007, occasionally acting
as Principal. He took early retirement from
the Teaching Service in 2009, moving to the
British Council to manage the Global
Schools Partnership Programme for the UK

Department for International Development.
Apart from establishing over 100 partnerships between schools in the Caribbean and
schools in the United Kingdom, Mr. Jardine
also oversaw the training of teachers from
across the globe in the use of school partnerships as a means of inserting the principles
of development education into their schools’
curricula.

Court Research and Statistics
Mr. Sean Francis O’Brien, Director
Mr Sean Francis O’Brien has joined the
Judiciary as Director of Court Research and
Statistics. He holds a BSc in Economics
UWI, as well as an MSc in Strategic
Management from the University of
Portsmouth. He was also awarded a
scholarship to attend a course on Statistics
for Social Policy at the Munich Centre for
Economic, Environmental and Social Statis-

tics, Germany, and has also been pursuing
his M.Phil/PhD in the Economic Development Policy programme of the Sir Arthur
Lewis Institute for Social and Economic
Studies at UWI. Mr O’Brien brings to his
position in the Judiciary a wealth of related
experience having served for more than 10
years as a Statistician 1 at the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Trinidad and Tobago,
with a break from that institution for three

years during which he undertook a special
assignment at the Judiciary of Trinidad and
Tobago as Court Statistician. At the CSO,
among his achievements was the design
and development of the Report on Crime
Statistics which required establishing and
fostering working relationships with the
police, prison and probation services.

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Reshaping the

Judiciary Identity