Sir Hugh Wooding was born of Barbadian parents in Trinidad and Tobago in 1904. He attended Queen's Royal College and Middle Temple Inns of Cours and was admitted to the Bar in 1927. He established an outstanding reputation in the field of civil and commercial litigation. He entered municipal politics in 1941 and became Mayor of Port of Spain two years later. He was the first son of the soil to be appointed Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago (1962). Following his retirement, he served as Chairman of the Constitutional Reform Commission and Chancellor of The University of the West Indies. He died in 1974. Justice Aubrey Fraser was born in Barbados of Guyanese parents in 1921 and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1948. He practised law in Guyana from 1949, joined the Supreme Court and remained on the bench until 1962 when he was transferred to the high court in Trinidad and Tobago and later elevated to the Court of Appeal. He worked with Sir High Wooding in the latter phase of his life and the two men became great friends. Justice Fraser served as Director of the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica from 1972-1984.