Locals are shut out from DPP’s Office
The Attorneys are now gainfully employed in the private sector as the DPP chambers continues in its search to fill its vacant posts—vacancies already putting a strain on the administration of justice in the Territory.
Too Long
The state of affairs was laid bare during the Finance Committee’s examination of the draft estimates for the DPP, for 2018.
Principal Crown Counsel, in the DPP’s Office, Mrs Tiffany Scatliffe – Esprit, speaking to challenges faced in recruiting persons, said most young people going into law these days do not want to go into criminal law and that there would need to be a way to get persons interested in that area.
She then informed Committee Members of one particular young man who had been eager to join the DPP Office and had applied.
He was never hired, since according to Mrs Scatliffe-Esprit, the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) had taken too long to respond.
The DPP’s Principal Crown Counsel, highlighting another example for the Committee Members, pointed to a local young lady who had also applied to work with the DPP Office and was in fact shortlisted favourably since the office wanted her.
Locals?
According to Mrs Scatliffe-Esprit, the young lady ended up working in the private sector and when asked, the young lady had said “the JLSC had taken too long to get back to her.”
As such, the Principal Crown Counsel bemoaned the need for accelerating the selection process in the employment of persons, “so that there can be a better chance of recruiting locals.”
The matter of employment was also explored further by Minister for Education and Culture, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn (AL) who queried an additional new post for Crown Counsel being catered for in the draft estimates for 2018.
He said there will be locals who are coming back to the Territory soon who would be able to fill the one new post and asked if they were also seeking to employ an additional Senior Crown Counsel.
Honourable Walwyn also enquired of the four existing Senior Crown Counsel positions, how many of them were locals.
She informed the member however, that there had been three Senior Crown Counsel posts filled with the addition of the one being requested and that one of those posts had been recently vacated.
As such, there are now two posts that need to be filled.
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23 Responses to “Locals are shut out from DPP’s Office”
If there are no locals in criminal law it means two things:
Firstly, that the BVI nationals who want to be in law are all employed where they chose, in the more prestigious and lucrative civil law. All countries struggle to have enough quality criminal lawyers for the same reasons.
2nd There is less opportunity for nepotism and corruption in prosecution as any small population would be at risk of.
Bring in the best quality from outside as soon as possible and get them here and paying rent, food, taxes, insurances, for restaurants and hotels, the lot. Do not delay.
Same for financial services. If we need hundreds of permit holders it is because business is good which mean all the other businesses are good and that there are more opportunities here. Why o why are people languishing waiting on permits that we need to grant anyway and doing one year permits the whole time instead of two or three (we would get all that money up front now when we need it)?
GET WOKE!!!!
Actually, in recent times they have been making every effort to get the locals that are already employed terminated or removed from that very office and hire persons from abroad. The 3 most recently hired persons were from abroad and I am very sure locals could have filled those positions.
There was a local young lady that was qualified as a lawyer that was hired not through JLSC but rather through Human Resources Department. By the way, no lawyer should be hired through HR but that just reflects in part how unlawful the government operates. In fact, the JLSC met after she was hired and appointed someone else to the same department, and that (first) lady mentioned was never asked by management to go before JLS to be rightfully appointed. Actually, she was told that she needed to work a year within the department before she could go before JLSC, which is not true.
Nevertheless, a few weeks before she completed her one year probation, she was unfairly terminated by the Director of Human Resources at the request of the current Director of Public Prosecution not due to any underperformance by her but in their grand scheme to get rid of the locals and also because the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Principal Crown Counsel fail to show competence in leading and managing the office fairly and efficiently. The DPP’s office is adamant to hire the most intelligent persons but upon being hired, those persons are not permitted to think or function to their fullest capacity due to management being arrogant, thus stifling their growth & performance.
So don’t let this article mislead you to think that that the DPP’s office have been trying to hire locals and that the JLSC has been taking long, hence persons get swayed into the private sector. The DPP wants to hire a team of British lawyers and the PCC wants to hire a team of overseas lawyers whose work permit/ continued employment would be at her mercy, as they would have to get their employment contract approved and renewed every 2 years and they are less likely to become permanent and pensionable.
Why are these lies being told.
Enough is enough.
solid seed of home grown soil who ?