High number of cases in Appeal’s Court forces need for two courtrooms
This announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Bar Association’s 10th Annual Regional Law Fair at Scrub Island Resort this morning, September 13, 2013.
In the preliminary court list obtained by Virgin Islands News Online, it appears to be a packed agenda with over 40 cases before the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Supreme Court.
The cases before the Appeals Court range from criminal appeals for rape, drugs, and guns to civil matters of wrongful dismissal, business transactions, issues of violations of rights and unfair sentences.
According to Dr Pickering, the information on the magnitude of the Sitting was discussed with the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Dame Janice M. Pereira that the number of cases warranted two court room settings.
The September Sitting of the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court will run from September 16-20, 2013.
The Law Fair precedes the Special Sitting of the new law year of 2013-2014, which is to take place in the VI on Tuesday September 17, 2013.
In his address to the gathering of law minds from across the Caribbean region, Dr Pickering stressed the significance of the three-day Law Fair being held in the Virgin Islands. This year marks the second time that it is being held in the VI, the first being in 2005.
“This Fair is important as the OECS continues to find strategic ways of working together and at the same time adapt to change. This is indeed a forum of us to interact and create enormous opportunities for teamwork,” said Dr Pickering.
Participants were challenged to make use of the opportunities provided by the fair to promote the spirit of legal cohesion. “Let us as an OECS family continue to cooperate on many issues that are affecting our way forward. Instead of each jurisdiction having its own initiatives, let us combine efforts and build an even stronger, unified legal organization,” Dr Pickering urged.
He added that during the previous law year Chief Justice Pereira had impressed upon him the importance of taking a combined approach that would lead to a unified collaboration in carrying out the rule of law and safeguard the fundamental rights of the people of the respective jurisdictions.
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