For­mer State at­tor­ney at the of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Re­han­na Ho­sein has been ap­point­ed as a mag­is­trate. She was ap­point­ed at a sim­ple cer­e­mo­ny on Au­gust 23, at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain. Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Mark Welling­ton were al­so present at the ap­point­ment.

Ho­sein, an at­tor­ney for 13 years, worked at the de­part­ment of the Chief State So­lic­i­tor, in the AG's of­fice. She had been em­ployed there since 2002 and had al­so worked as a pros­e­cu­tor in the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions' of­fice, pri­or to that.

She was al­so re­tained as a spe­cial ad­vis­er to the Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs, be­fore her ap­point­ment to the AG's of­fice. Since her ap­point­ment, Ho­sein has been train­ing with oth­er mag­is­trates at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates' Court. Most re­cent­ly, yes­ter­day, she sat be­side Mag­is­trate Wendy Dougdeen-Bal­ly in the Sixth (Traf­fic) Court.

Ho­sein was ac­tive­ly in­volved in sev­er­al 'high-pro­file" law­suits brought against the State and the AG. Most mem­o­rably, she was an in­struct­ing at­tor­ney for Dou­glas Mendes, SC, in a se­ries of law­suits brought by re­tired Chief Jus­tice Sat­nar­ine Shar­ma against the State, for the in­tend­ed im­peach­ment pro­ceed­ings. Ho­sein is ex­pect­ed to start her mag­is­te­r­i­al du­ties at the start of the new law term in mid-Sep­tem­ber.