Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips, ORTT, QC (20 April 1933 – 16 January 2014) was an Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago and a judge of the International Criminal Court. He was also lead counsel in the murder trial of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Biography Hudson-Phillips attended Tranquillity School and Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain, Trinidad, before going to England to read law at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1959, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, London. He returned to Trinidad and Tobago where he established a distinguished legal practice and was conferred the honour of Queen's Counsel - the mark of professional eminence in the British Commonwealth in 1971. He was the youngest Attorney General within the Commowealth at age 36. Hudson-Phillips graduated from the University of Cambridge, England (1952-1956), M.A, LLB. He is a member of the Bar of the following countries: United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, St Kitts, Antigua, The British Virgin Islands and Jamaica. He entered active politics in 1966 when he was elected a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Digeo Martin East. Prior to that, he had been active in student politicsand social activities and was the President of the Cambridge University West Indian Society in 1945-1956. He was also Chairman of the first Overseas Party Group of the ruling People's National Movement (PNM) Party in 1958, soon after Dr Eric Williams came into power. Hudson-Phillips returned to Trinidad in 1959 and commenced his law practicewith his father, who was then a prominent member of the Trinidad Bar. He became active in politics of Trinidad at a Party level and served on several party committees being the Party delegate to the conference on the Constitution for an independent Trinidad and Tobago in 1961. He was appointed a member of the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission on which he served for four years from 1962-1966. On entering Parliament in 1966, he continued his law practice while being introduced into active politics at Parliamentary level. In 1968, he made his first major speech in the House when he pioleted the first amendment to the Independent Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago to provide a widening of the provisions permitting Trinidad and Tobago citizens to have dual citizenship and to extend the date of application for citizenship by certain classes of Trinidad residents. Between the period 1966 and 1969, he