Sir Richard William Ground, (17 December 1949 – 22 February 2014)News24
"Former Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground dies", 23 February was an English judge in the

Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located so ...

and

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

Biography

Ground was born in Stamford, England in 1949 and studied at

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Inns of Court School of Law The City Law School is a law school in London, England, and it is one of the six schools of City, University of London. The law school traces its origins to the Inns of Court School of Law (ICSL), which was founded in 1852. The ICSL became par ...

. He was called to the bar at

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in 1975. He was a media lawyer in London, before going to the

to serve as Crown Counsel from 1983 to 1987 and then as Attorney General of the Cayman Islands from 1987 to 1992. He was Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1998 to 2004, and Chief Justice of Bermuda from 2004 to 2012. Ground retired as Chief Justice in 2012 and was succeeded by Ian Kawaley.

Personal life and death

He died on 22 February 2014 in Grindleford, Derbyshire, survived by his widow, Dace McCoy Ground, whom he married in 1986.

References

External links

Sir Richard William Ground, 2012 Knighthood approval
in The Gazette {{DEFAULTSORT:Ground, Richard 1949 births 2014 deaths 20th-century English judges Knights Bachelor Bermudian judges Attorneys general of the Cayman Islands Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Alumni of City, University of London Members of Gray's Inn People from Stamford, Lincolnshire Chief justices of the Turks and Caicos Islands Chief justices of Bermuda 21st-century English judges