Tanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter If Jamaica is to continue with the jury system, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes says access to gated communities is one of the issues that will have to be tackled to diversify the jury pool. “The proliferation of gated.
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes says, while 2023 "was a reasonable year for the judiciary… much work needs to be done" to clear the backlog in the Supreme Court which "gets worse with each passing year".
In-person hearings will resume at the Court of Appeal when the Michaelmas Term begins next week. This was announced by President Justice Patrick Brooks, during a swearing-in at King's House on Monday for members of the judiciary who have.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Nine members of the judiciary were sworn in to higher office for the Michaelmas Term by Governor-General Sir Partick Allen, Monday at King’s House.
Taking the Oath of Allegiance an.
THE Court of Appeal will be resuming in-person hearings next week, ending the reliance on virtual hearings which were adopted when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Jamaica in March 2020.
Speaking at a s.