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JURY service is when you are instructed to attend court with other members of the public, so the court can select people to sit on juries for upcoming court cases. Even though you are called for jury service, you may not actually serve on a jury. You have an obligation to attend ....
The soon-to-be established Criminal Justice Reform Committee is expected to make Barbados’ overburdened judicial system more efficient, says Attorney General Dale Marshall.Speaking to the media on Monday at the Hilton Barbados as deliberations in the second Criminal Justice Symposium continued into the evening, Marshall said one of the major deliverables is the establishment of the committee which will monitor the implementation of decisions coming out of this symposium and the first one held earlier in April.“In addition to the committee being set up to oversee the entire process of criminal justice reform, we expect to be able to come away with some decisions on important legislative items that we want to enact,” said the AG who expects to co-chair the committee with Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham.“The kind of things that are currently being considered by the committee would be such things as judge-alone trials, amendments to the Evidence Act, and amendments to the Ju ....