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Primary-school students participating in a 2017 Restorative Justice sensitsation session.
Primary-school students participating in a 2017 Restorative Justice sensitsation session.

Activities For Restorative Justice Week 2020 Under Way

A peace walk, youth forum and islandwide sensitization sessions are among the features for Restorative Justice Week 2020, being observed from February 2 to 7 under the theme ‘Supporting Peace and Unity in Our Community’. Restorative Justice Programme Coordinator, Andriene...
Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (left), is presented with a copy of the Judiciary’s Strategic Business Plan, titled ‘Benchmarking the Future: Courting Success’, by Chief Justice, Hon. Bryan Sykes, during the document’s recent launch, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew. Mr. Chuck represented Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness.
Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (left), is presented with a copy of the Judiciary’s Strategic Business Plan, titled ‘Benchmarking the Future: Courting Success’, by Chief Justice, Hon. Bryan Sykes, during the document’s recent launch, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew. Mr. Chuck represented Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness.

Justice Minister Calls For Support Of Judicial Strategic Business Plan
Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck (left), in conversation with (from second left): Member of Parliament for North East St. Catherine, Leslie Campbell; Opposition Spokesperson on Tourism, Wykeham McNeill and Executive Director of the Legal Aid Council, Hugh Faulkner, at a special viewing of new mobile justice units (in background) by Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament, on Duke Street in downtown Kingston, on February 4.
Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck (left), in conversation with (from second left): Member of Parliament for North East St. Catherine, Leslie Campbell; Opposition Spokesperson on Tourism, Wykeham McNeill and Executive Director of the Legal Aid Council, Hugh Faulkner, at a special viewing of new mobile justice units (in background) by Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament, on Duke Street in downtown Kingston, on February 4.

New Mobile Units To Enhance Outreach Services Of Legal Aid Council
Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second left), peruses a copy of the first ever Strategic Business Plan for the Judicial Arm of Government, during the document
Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second left), peruses a copy of the first ever Strategic Business Plan for the Judicial Arm of Government, during the document's launch at the Terra Nova Hotel, in Kingston, on Friday (January 31). Also viewing the document (from left) are: President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Dennis Morrison; Trinidad and Tobago Attorney-at-Law and Economist, Dr. Terrence Farrell; and Chief Justice, Hon. Bryan Sykes.

Judicial Strategic Business Plan Launched
Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe
Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe

JPs Urged To Serve With Integrity

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Executive Director of the Legal Aid Clinic (LAC), Hugh Faulkner, is encouraging citizens to utilise the services of the Mobile Justice Unit
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Invite Mobile Justice Units To Your Communities – Faulkner

Executive Director of the Legal Aid Council (LAC), Hugh Faulkner, is encouraging communities to request the services of the Mobile Justice Unit. “We are encouraging community and church groups to invite the Mobile Justice Unit to their events, so that members of their groups can have easy access to legal services, free of cost,” Mr. Faulkner told JIS News. He...
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Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (left, foreground), and Canada’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, display a wheelchair on the ramp of one of two newly acquired retrofitted mobile justice units, which were handed over during a ceremony in the Ministry’s car park on Constant Spring Road in Kingston on Wednesday (January 29). The units, valued at Can$420,000, were provided by the Government of Canada through the Justice Undertakings for Social Transformation (JUST) programme.
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Gov’t Receives Additional Two Vehicles For Mobile Justice Programme

The Ministry of Justice will be expanding mobile justice services to members of the disabled community and the elderly with the addition of two specially retrofitted units. This is in keeping with the Ministry’s thrust to facilitate access for all citizens through enhanced service delivery. The units, valued Can$420,000, each seat 14 persons and comprise two enclosed office compartments furnished...
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The Legal Aid Council’s first Mobile Justice Unit that was handed over in 2017.
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Justice Ministry Gets Two Additional Mobile Units

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) will receive two new mobile justice units from the Canadian Government on January 29. The 2020 buses, which will be handed over at the Ministry, in Kingston, have each been retrofitted with Internet access. They are air-conditioned units with a 14-seat waiting area. “We are thankful to the Canadian Government, which has always partnered with...
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Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe (second right), engages Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second left); Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Sancia Bennett Templer (left); and Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Grace-Ann Stewart McFarlane, at an event last year.
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NIA Pleased With Justice Ministry’s Partnership

Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe, says the NIA is pleased with the established partnership with the Ministry of Justice and looks forward to providing continued support. “We are pleased to see early signs of positive outcomes as a result of the many years of a continued partnership for the reform of the justice sector,” Professor...
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Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck.
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Litigants And Attorneys Encouraged To Use Mediation To Settle Cases

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, is encouraging persons involved in lawsuits, and attorneys to utilise mediation to achieve mutual results and to free up the Courts. Mr. Chuck, who was addressing a public education symposium in Morant Bay, St. Thomas, on January 22, said he will be embarking on a mission this year to have cases dealt with in...
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Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck.
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Gang Members Encouraged To Consider Plea Bargaining

The Justice Ministry is encouraging accused or imprisoned co-conspirators such as gang members to consider plea agreements in order to expedite cases through the courts and reduce backlog. Speaking in a recent interview with JIS News, portfolio Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, said that plea bargaining has proven to help resolve cases. “The convicted persons, especially those who have been sentenced...
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Land To Be Purchased For Manchester Parish Court

The Government will be spending $184 million for the purchase of land at 3 Brumalia Road in Mandeville for the relocation of the Manchester Parish Court. Speaking at today’s (January 15) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister with oversight for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda, said Cabinet has given approval for the purchase of the land. The...
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