As part of efforts to enhance the justice system in Jamaica, it is anticipated that by mid-year, judges will be able to accelerate and make more efficient, court procedures and proceedings, through the use of technology."So (for example) the judge can sit in their chambers, go to their computer and fix a date for the cases. At the moment, the judge has to call down to the registry, which has to go through several notebooks to find a correct date," Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, explained at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House recently.
The use of technology is part of measures to transform the justice system, through an integration of some key recommendations of the Justice Reform Task Force, with the administration's manifesto pledges that fall in line with the recommendations.
"This (Justice Transformation) agenda is really the justice sector's section of the National Development Plan, which takes us to 2030, which we needed to have, so that our international donors too, can see where we are going," Senator Lightbourne said.
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