Two new members of the Court of Appeal were announced today.

Anthony Smellie, Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, will join the court in June.

Elizabeth Gloster, vice-president of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, will start in January next year.

John Rankin, the Governor, announced the appointments this afternoon.

Mr Rankin said: “I am very pleased to announce the appointments of Justice Smellie and Lady Justice Gloster to Bermuda’s Court of Appeal following the recommendations of the Judicial and Legal Services Committee.

“Bermuda is fortunate to be able to attract such distinguished jurists to maintain the quality of our courts, providing service at the highest possible level for the people of Bermuda.”

Mr Justice Smellie has served as a judge of the Grand Court in the Cayman Island’s since 1993.

He became Chief Justice in 1998.

Mr Justice Smellie was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1991.

He earlier served as Jamaica’s Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions and as Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General for the Cayman Islands.

Lady Justice Gloster was made as a High Court judge for England and Wales in 2004 and joined the Court of Appeal in 2013.

She was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1989.

Lady Justice Gloster has also been a member of the Court of Appeal of both Jersey and Guernsey.