The Justice Ministry is working to roll out email addresses for Justices of the Peace (JPs) in the final quarter of the current financial year (2021-2022). Creation of these email addresses will better allow Jamaicans to access and communicate with JPs across the island. Addressing a recent JIS Think Tank, Director of Public Law, Restorative and Preventative Justice in the...

The Ministry of Justice will be working to expand the operations of Justices of the Peace (JPs) islandwide, with a new seal design. Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, who was speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, today (October 21), said the change in the seal design reflects the change in operations of JPs, based on location. “In the past, you...

Member of Parliament, St. Thomas Eastern, Dr. Michelle Charles, is calling for a structured monitoring of persons on bail. Making her contribution to the State of the Constituency Debate in the House of Representatives on October 20, Dr. Charles said electronic monitoring devices should be used to track offenders. Her comments come in light of the recent kidnappings of two...

The island’s courts are making steady progress in improving the clearance rate for cases. Notable among these are two Divisions of the Supreme Court. The High Court Division of the Gun Court has reduced the number of active backlogged cases to under 10 per cent and net backlogs to less than five per cent, while the Revenue Court’s list is...

Justice Minister, Delroy Chuck, is appealing to attorneys across the island to serve on the panel of the Legal Aid Council (LAC). The Legal Aid Council is an entity in the Ministry of Justice, mandated to provide an efficient and coordinated Legal Aid system in Jamaica. One core objective is to provide equal access to Justice to all Jamaicans. Minister...

Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says that Parliament has approved increases in fees for attorneys-at-law empanelled by the Legal Aid Council (LAC). “Now it will go through the regulations committee, which will examine it around next week. It will be gazetted, hopefully before the end of the month, and by then these fees will come into operation,” said Justice Minister,...

Cabinet has given approval for revision of the 2012 National Restorative Justice Policy. Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the announcement during the virtual post-Cabinet press briefing on Wednesday (October 6). The Minister said this is being done to ensure the currency and efficacy of the policy, as well as strengthen the legitimacy, reach and overall effectiveness...