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Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck addressing students and teachers at the Restorative Justice youth forum and panel discussion held on Wednesday (February 5) at the Pembroke Hall Primary School auditorium in Kingston.

Hundreds Benefit From Restorative Justice Youth Forum

Hundreds of students and teachers from primary and secondary schools across the Corporate Area have benefited from a restorative justice youth forum and panel discussion organised by the Ministry of Justice. The event, held on Wednesday (February 5) at the...

Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second right), speaks with Pembroke Hall Primary School student, Raphael Thorne (centre), at a restorative justice youth awareness forum held on Wednesday (February 5), at the school in Kingston. Looking on are (from left) Programme Coordinator, Restorative Justice Unit, Andrine Lindsey; and Rickala Parish and Malik Scott from the John Mills Infant, Primary and Junior High School.

Restorative Justices Practices To Be Implemented In Schools Shortly

Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (right), is apprised of the features in one of two newly acquired mobile justice units by Executive Director for the Legal Aid Council, Hugh Faulkner, during a presentation 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.

Mobile Justice Unit Rolls Into Meadowbrook, St. Andrew On Feb. 8

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

Activities For Restorative Justice Week 2020 Under Way

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.

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New Mobile Units To Enhance Outreach Services Of Legal Aid Council

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says the two newly acquired mobile justice units will significantly enhance the Legal Aid Council (LAC) outreach services for persons in marginalised and deep rural communities. “This is going to be a game changer for small communities, rural and inner-city areas, where many of these residents don’t even have the bus fare to go...

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

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Judicial Strategic Business Plan Launched

The first ever Strategic Business Plan for the Judicial Arm of Government, was officially unveiled during a ceremony at the Terra Nova Hotel, in Kingston, on Friday (January 31). The plan, titled: 'Benchmarking the Future: Courting Success', covers the period 2019-2023, and will be formally implemented in the court system on Monday, February 3. Deputy Governor-General and Custos for Kingston,...

Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe

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JPs Urged To Serve With Integrity

Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe, is imploring the island’s Justices of the Peace (JPs) to carry out their duties with integrity. “For the Governor-General to commission you, you are required to be a person of unquestionable integrity, and I urge you to live up to that obligation. “Remember the National Pledge, because when we say...

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...

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...

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...

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...