A total of 82 persons will serve as jurors during the Easter Term of the Home Circuit Court. Making the disclosure during yesterday's (March 30) opening of the new term at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston, Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, said the figure represents “more than we were accustomed to having in previous times” and may be as...

A sum of $100 million has been approved by Cabinet for the relocation of the offices of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry will be relocated from 2 Oxford Road, Kingston 5 to 61 Constant Spring Road, Kingston 10. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, at yesterday's (March 22) post-Cabinet press briefing,...

The Ministry of Justice will be situated at premises at 61 Constant Spring Road, St. Andrew as at March 16. The Ministry began scaling down operations at its current offices at 2 Oxford Road, New Kingston on Wednesday (March 9), to facilitate the relocation. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, told JIS News that the relocation is...

The Ministry of Justice is heartened by the significant improvement in Jamaica’s standing in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) results for 2015, which underscores the progress being made by our country in combating corruption. The latest CPI ranking saw Jamaica making a significant leap to 69th of the 168 countries that were assessed, an advancement of 16 places when compared...

The House of Representatives has approved the Judicature (Resident Magistrate’s) (Amendment and Change of Name) Act, 2015 which, among other things, changes the name of these courts from Resident Magistrate’s to Parish Courts. Attorney-General, Patrick Atkinson, who piloted the Bill through the House recently, explained that judicial officers of these courts will no longer be referred to as Resident Magistrates,...

The Ministry of Justice wishes to congratulate the Hon. Mrs. Justice Zaila McCalla OJ, Chief Justice of Jamaica, who on Tuesday February 9, 2016 was conferred with the prestigious honour of being appointed an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple Inn in London, England, in recognition of her contribution to the law in Jamaica. The Middle Temple has a long...

Minister of Justice, Senator the Hon. Mark Golding, says Cabinet has approved the tabling of a bill to implement restorative justice as part of the formal court system. “We will table the bill in Parliament as soon as it reconvenes,” Minister Golding said, during a recent interview on the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) current affairs programme, ‘Issues and Answers’. He...