Charles Gomez

Charles Gomez
Born	Charles A. Gomez April 23, 1959 (1959-04-23) (age 52) Gibraltar
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	Gibraltarian(Llanito)Portuguese & Irish descent
Alma mater	Gibraltar Grammar School; University College Buckland; University of London; Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.
Occupation	Barrister
Known for	Gibraltar general election, 2007
Home town	Gibraltar
Political party	New Gibraltar Democracy
Board member of	Bar Council. Law Reform Committee
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Spouse	Susan L. Saywell
Children	Nicolas,Christopher & Lilly.

Charles A. Gomez LL.B. (Hons) of counsel is a Gibraltarian lawyer^[1] and one time politician, and founder of the right of centre New Gibraltar Democracy (NGD) Party. He was born in Gibraltar on 23 April 1959 and was called to the Bars of England, Wales and Gibraltar in 1982.

Career

He was retained by the suspended Chief Justice of Gibraltar, Derek Schofield, in proceedings for the removal of Gibraltar's senior judge heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London which resulted in a 4/3 split of that court in a decision handed down on 12 November 2009. The decision is considered to be a major precedent in the field of judicial independence in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

Gomez was a prominent member and spokesman of the "No vote" campaign for the 2006 constitutional referendum on Gibraltar's current Constitution. He currently concentrates on his career as a barrister.

Other work

For several years in the 1990s he wrote a weekly piece in the newsweekly "Vox" and was at one time heavily involved in powerboat racing having organised Royal Yachting Association and Union Internationale Motonautique events in Gibraltar.

See also

• List of Gibraltarians
• Politics of Gibraltar

References

1. ^ "Charles A Gomez". lawequitygibraltar.com. http://www.lawequitygibraltar.com/charles-a-gomez.html. Retrieved 19 November 2010. 

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Name	Gomez, Charles
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Date of birth	23 April 1959
Place of birth	Gibraltar
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