‘End Delays From The Bench! – Bar Association Calls On Judges To Speedily Hand Down Judgments’ was the caption of an article in this newspaper on May 12, 2016. At that time, the Jamaican Bar Association had delivered a letter to the then chief...
Pearl Buck wrote: "Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilisation is the way that it cares for its helpless members." Is that the society in which we live? From...
At the end of the judgment in the case of Perry v Bough and Others [2018] JMCA Civ 12, Justice Brooks said, "The result is not the happiest, bearing in mind that Mr Perry has purchased the premises for a not insignificant sum. It is perhaps time for...
Now that Jamaica is a signatory to The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("the Abduction Convention") and amended the Children (Guardianship and Custody) Act to include the appropriate provisions, it is important...
