Following his Friday, February 6 swearing in as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Jamaican jurist, Patrick Robinson is flanked by Her Excellency, Vilma McNish, Ambassador of Jamaica to Belgium (l) and his son the Hon. Julian Robinson, State Minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM).
Judge Robinson, one of three judges sworn in today to serve a nine-year period, is the first Jamaican to serve on the ICJ, since its inception 70 years ago.