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Mr. Martin Daly, S.C.

People are ambivalent about lawyers. They may be seen as crooked and contemptible but also as critical to justice and protecting our rights. Our fourth inductee has been a lawyer all his life. He attended St Mary’s College from 1957 to 1963 where he excelled academically but also pursued acting and debating. It is perhaps his exceptional debating skills which propelled him into a career in law, specifically as an advocate attorney. He took to Law like a duck to water and by age 35 he was appointed Senior Counsel, the youngest such appointment in the region. Good debating skills alone do not make an outstanding advocate. He or she must be fearless, forthright, independent of mind, and possessed of uncompromising integrity. These qualities are all to be found in Martin Daly. Over the course of an illustrious career, he was involved in some of the most significant cases litigated in this country including Endell Thomas, Thomas and Hilaire v Baptiste, Crane v Rees, Sam Maharaj v Cabinet, and many others which reached the Privy Council. He has taken up significant pro bono cases seeking justice for individuals. and used his legal skills to support the steelband movement. In 1990 during the attempted coup, he together with Michael de la Bastide (a former inductee) sought to advise on the amnesty offered to the Muslimeen insurrectionists. Between 1992 and 2001 he served as an independent Senator making meaningful contributions to significant pieces of legislation and serving on several committees including the Joint Select Committees on the Constitution Amendment Bill re the Police Service Commission (1994), the Companies Act and the Securities Industry Act (1995) and the parliamentary committee on the regulation of the tourism industry (1997). Daly served as President of the Law Association from 2008 to 2010 and was a member of the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission between 2010 and 2016. The RJLSC is responsible for the selection of judges to the Caribbean Court of Justice. He has served as a board director of several public listed companies in Trinidad and Tobago. Beginning in 2002 and continuing to date, Martin Daly has written a weekly column in the Sunday Express. He is forthright in articulating his opinions and does not shrink from telling the truth as he sees it. These columns deal mainly with political and social issues of the day, legislation, legal cases and steelpan music. Spanning 23 years, these opinion pieces have not only chronicled the issues of the day but have contributed immeasurably to the vibrancy of intellectual life and discourse in Trinidad and Tobago. Martin Daly’s love for art and culture has not diminished since his schooldays at CIC. He is well known a steelpan aficionado and recently returned to acting. Martin Daly has made an immense contribution to legal practice, legislation, culture and the arts, especially the steelband, and more generally to the quality of the nation’s intellectual life. In doing so, he has consistently displayed adherence to principle, to good governance, and to truth. For his impactful contributions to Law and Justice, public service, and the intellectual life of the nation, Martin Daly is hereby inducted to the St Mary’s College Hall of Fame.