HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -Governor Rena Lalgie has appointed former director of public prosecutions Larry Mussenden, 60, as the new Chief Justice of this British Overseas Territory.
The former legislator and former Bermuda Football Association president succeeds Narinder Hargun, who retired in December. He will take up his new appointment on Thursday.
“I am happy to announce the appointment of Larry Mussenden as Bermuda’s next Chief Justice. Mr Mussenden is a highly regarded lawyer both within Bermuda and internationally.
“He has over 27 years of professional legal experience in public service and private practice, serving as Crown Counsel, Director of Public Prosecutions, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and most recently as a puisne judge,” Lalgie said.
Justice Mussenden, a former criminal defense lawyer with a background also in information technology, was admitted as a barrister in England and Wales in 1995 and in Bermuda a year later, having earned a law degree at the University of Kent in Canterbury and having studied at the Inns of Court School of Law in London.
He served as a Crown counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers in 1996 and then as a prosecutor in the DPP’s office.
He was appointed Attorney-General, Minister of Justice, and Government Senate Leader in the Progressive Labour Party government in January 2004. He served as DPP from 2016 to 2020.
“I am confident that his legal expertise and leadership experience will serve the Supreme Court well, helping to maintain the island’s standing as a legal jurisdiction of the highest order,’ Governor Lalgie said as she praised the scope of his background for the presiding role over Bermuda’s courts.
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