Francis Mortimer Cumberbatch is a Guyanese lawyer and judge. He has worked for the government in the

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and since 2007 has been a High Court Judge of the

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. Cumberbatch received a

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degree from the

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. He worked as government lawyer in Guyana for four years, and from 1980 to 2000 worked in private practice in

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. In 2000, Cumberbatch moved to the

, where he worked in the office of the Attorney-General of the Bahamas. In 2007, the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the

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appointed him to the

; as a High Court Judge, he was assigned to reside in and hear cases from

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. In 2011, he succeeded fellow-Guyanese national Kenneth Benjamin as the presiding judge of the High Court in Saint Lucia.

References

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court: Saint Lucia"St. Lucia: New judge to preside over High Court"
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