Date of initial election to the judicial roster: 20 December 2011
Current term: 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2026
Judge Burton Hall has been a Judge of the Mechanism since it commenced operations in July 2012. In this capacity, he has adjudicated a variety of matters, including as a Single Judge, as Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber in the Stanišić & Simatović case, and as a member of the Appeals Chamber in the Ngirabatware case. Since 2016 he has chaired the Rules Committee of the Mechanism.
Judge Hall also served as a Judge of the ICTY from 2005 until its closure in December 2017, where he was involved in numerous cases and presided over the Stanišić & Župljanin trial proceedings.
Earlier in his career, Judge Hall held various positions within the Bahamian judiciary. He was successively Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate (1978-1980), Solicitor General (1983-1990), Justice of the Supreme Court (1991-1997), Judge of the Court of Appeal (1997-2001), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2001-2009). In addition, Judge Hall was a member of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank (1999-2004).
Between 1999 and 2009, Judge Hall directed a course on Constitutional Law and Legal Systems at the Eugene Dupuch Law School, Nassau, The Bahamas. In 2002, he was a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Institute at the Dalhousie University School of Law, Halifax, Canada. He was awarded the Pelican Alumni Peer Award as an outstanding alumnus of the University of the West Indies, Barbados (2004). Judge Hall is a member of several professional associations, including the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Association, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, and the International Law Association.
Judge Hall holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of the West Indies, Barbados (1974) and a legal education certificate from the Commonwealth Caribbean's Council of Legal Education of the West Indies (1976). He was admitted to the Bahamas Bar in 1976. He was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2001 and by Pope John Paul II in 2003. He is fluent in English.