Three promi­nent se­nior coun­sels have been ap­point­ed to the tri­bunal which will be over­see­ing com­plaints and oth­er mat­ters re­lat­ed to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

They are Deb­o­rah Peake, SC, Ian Ben­jamin, SC and Lee Mer­ry, SC.

The tri­bunal was es­tab­lished pur­suant to sec­tion 11 (1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion and para­graph 5 (2) of the sec­ond sched­ule of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions 2011. Its du­ty will be to over­see pro­ceed­ings and pro­vide de­ci­sions aimed at main­tain­ing jus­tice and trans­paren­cy in SoE ad­min­is­tra­tive mat­ters.

The ap­point­ment of the mem­bers, se­lect­ed for their ex­per­tise, was an­nounced in the T&T Gazette on Thurs­day.