The society is being encouraged to facilitate the reintegration of persons, who have been released after serving time in correctional institutions. State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando...

Court Statistician, Dr. Denarto Dennis, says that the implementation of a metric system has aided in the performance of the Jamaican court system. “We now have a number of metrics...

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, is calling for persons of influence to help neutralise the influence of dons in communities. He said the police, political representatives, justices of the...

     

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, is reporting that there has been a consistent reduction of the criminal case backlog over the past three to four years. “On December 31,...

Legal assistance was provided for 2,484 cases in the Parish Courts during the 2018/2019 Fiscal Year by the Legal Aid Council. This represents a 17.3 per cent increase in Legal...

Some 1,046 criminal records were expunged from a total of 1,915 applications received during the 2018/19 fiscal year. This was disclosed by Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, during his...

The Ministry of Justice is now in the process of implementing the administrative infrastructure so that the Child Diversion Act can be operationalised within a couple of weeks. This was...