The Legal Aid Council (LAC) Mobile Justice Units have resumed controlled community visits around the island. The units are equipped with legal consultants from the LAC who provide advice on various matters to Jamaicans, free of cost. In an interview with JIS News, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Council, Hugh Faulkner, said the visits on June 3 to Manchester...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says over the next four weeks, 60 tourism workers will be participating in a new law programme offered by the University of the West Indies. The Minister said the new training initiative, called ‘Tourism and Law’, and featuring topics such as Introduction to Criminal Law, Introduction to Contract Law, Law of Torts and Sexual...

Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness says that justice will be served in the recent shooting death of Susan Bogle of August Town, St. Andrew. The 44-year-old disabled woman was shot inside her home during a police-military operation in the community on May 27. Mr. Holness, during a virtual press briefing on Sunday (May 31) at the Office of...

A Motion calling for legislative changes to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Act, to strengthen the investigative capabilities of the organisation was tabled in the House of Representatives by Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, on May 27. A Joint Select Committee of the Houses of Parliament reviewed and reported on the Act in October 2015. It recommended, in light...

The Annotto Bay Outstation in the St. Mary Parish Court will be closed to the public for the duration of the quarantine period announced by the Government on Thursday May 7, 2020. As a result of the closure, all matters which were previously scheduled for this outstation will be given new dates, after the quarantine period, and affected persons informed...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is producing anti-fog disposable face shields, in an effort to aid in the fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. More than 200 face shields have been produced, so far, through the combined efforts of the correctional services officers and inmates from the South Camp Adult Correctional Centre. In addition to the...

Jamaicans with criminal records are being encouraged to pursue the expungement service of the Ministry of Justice as a key part of moving forward with their lives. Expungement involves the formal removal of a conviction from an individual’s record, normally after a specified period has passed and certain conditions are met. Director of the Criminal, Civil and Family Law Unit...