Bahamian legal practice and judicial career

Hall was admitted to the Bahamas Bar on 6 October 1976, and then practised as an Assistant Counsel at the Office of the Attorney-General of the Bahamas.^[2]

He was appointed to act as a Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate from August 1978 to August 1980.^{[citation needed]} He then returned to the Office of the Attorney-General and was elevated to Crown Counsel.^[2] He became Acting Solicitor-General of the Bahamas in 1983,^[2] being confirmed to the post in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

Hall served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas on 1 February 1991 and then as a Justice of Court of Appeal of the Bahamas from April 1997.^[2][3]

He was appointed Chairman of the 1998 National Crime Commission of the Bahamas and, on 4 August 1999, was appointed as the first Bahamian judge on the Inter-American Development Bank Administration Tribunal.^[2]

On 5 September 2001, he was confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas (de facto head of the judiciary of the Bahamas),^[2][3] a position he occupied until 2009.^[2][4]

International judicial career

In August 2009, Hall was elected to serve as a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.^{[citation needed]} He was the presiding judge in the case of the Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović.^[5][6]

Memberships

In 2002, he became a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Institute, Dalhousie University School of Law.^{[citation needed]}

Hall is a member of the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Association, Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the International Law Association, and holds associate membership in the American Bar Association (Associate Member) and the Canadian Bar Association (Associate Member).^{[citation needed]}