The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) conducted an official visit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for the ceremonial opening of its 2026 judicial year.
Mr Justice Winston Anderson visited the IACHR from 25-28 January after accepting an invitation by the new President of the Court, the Honourable Mr Justice Rodrigo Mudrovitsch.
The ceremonial opening of the law year was attended by almost 400 jurists, government ministers, and the legal fraternity from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Peru at the Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas (Bar Association) in San José, Costa Rica.
President Anderson met with IACHR officials, including President Mudrovitsch, the Honourable Mr Justice Ricardo Pérez, and the Honourable Mme Justice Nancy Hernández López to discuss areas of mutual judicial and administrative collaboration.
Both Honourable Presidents expressed interest in strengthening and deepening the relationship between their respective institutions and set out a pathway to concretise initiatives, including the possible formalisation of a Memorandum of Understanding.
Additionally, the IACHR hosted the first edition of the Inter-American Seminar on Human Rights “Human Rights and their Challenges: Different Perspectives”.
During this inaugural event, the CCJ President was among seven panellists during the Dialogue among Presidents of High Courts, highlighting the uniqueness of the CCJ and how it proposes to overcome various challenges to human rights jurisprudence in the Caribbean.
CCJ President Anderson congratulated the IACHR President Mudrovitsch on the assumption of his new term and expressed a desire to collaborate in future engagements with the IACHR, as the Court works towards fulfillment of its 2025-2032 Strategic Plan, in particular strategic goals 2.1 “Promote access to justice and strengthen regional judicial collaboration” and 3.2 “Improve regional stakeholder engagement and participation”.
