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A plethora of tributes characterised the contribution to Barbados by late lawyer, politician and teacher Ezra Alleyne whom Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley described as “a patriotic Barbadian”, during his funeral service yesterday. In her tribute delivered to a packed chapel at Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens, Mottley said: “The Parliament of Barbados is the poorer . . . . The courts of Barbados will always be poorer . . . …
A local stalwart of the legal fraternity, an acute mind on parliamentary processes and principles, and a dedicated and affectionate husband, father and family man was how Ezra Ederson Alleyne was remembered before he was laid to rest on Monday.During a moving ceremony held in the chapel of the Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens, family members and close colleagues paid tribute to the man many saw as being integral to Barbados’ development in the legal and parliamentary spaces during the post-Independence era.While paying his respects to his legal colleague and friend for many decades, former Chief Justice Sir David Simmons stressed that though Alleyne undoubtedly possessed an astute legal mind and was always ready for a debate, it was his wit and sense of humour that made him memorable in and out of the courtroom.
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Barbados’ legal fraternity has lost a stalwart, a courageous advocate, and a lawyer whose courtroom craft was “par excellence”.Judges, prosecutors, and several other legal minds paid that tribute to late prominent attorney-at-Ezra Alleyne as they expressed sadness at his passing.Alleyne died on Sunday at the age of 78.Madam Justice Jaqueline Cornelius called him a “courageous advocate” and a “delightful colleague”, adding that “most of us as younger attorneys” admired him at the Bar.“Certainly in terms of appearing before us in court, he has always been extremely courteous and well prepared. The Bar really has lost a stalwart and one with a strong institutional memory of how the courts were run and should be run,” the High Court judge told Barbados TODAY.
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