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Justice delayed : CCJ blasts Bajan judicial sloth again

April 30, 2021 Barbados’ highest appellate court, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), has yet again condemned the lower courts’ “unacceptable” delays in delivering judgments, issuing a strong call for an apology to the affected parties. A real estate dispute, which took the Court of Appeal in Bridgetown four years to decide on, prompted CCJ justice Denys Barrow to issue the rebuke as the Port of Spain-based court delivered the last word on the case. While declaring that the delay did not prejudice the lower court’s decision, Justice Barrow described the hold-up as serious and unacceptable. He cited a concurring judgment by CCJ Justice Peter Jamadar who had some strong words for Barbados when he referred to Sections 18 and 84 of the Barbados Constitution relating to the delay in the delivery of judgments.

Reform the Senate completely

Reform the Senate completely Friday 11 December 2020 THE EDITOR: Did you know that in the UK Parliament – Westminster – members of the Upper House (the House of Lords) have lifetime appointments? In other words, they cannot be removed by a prime minister or leader of opposition once appointed. They sit in the Upper House over the span of several governments in their lifetimes and bring real institutional memory to the process of legislating. In fact, that is the role of the Upper House – to bring some independent reflection and debate on bills passed or debated in the Lower House. (And people automatically repeat the idea – like unthinking parrots – that we have a Westminster system of government.)

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