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News Stories

JURIST PROJECT DONATED LAPTOPS USED...

Photo: (From right) Her Ladyship, the Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LL.D, Chief Justice of ECSC receives the laptops donated by the Canadian-funded JURIST...

BARBADOS COURTS URGED TO MAXIMISE C...

Photo: (From L-R) Her Excellency Marie Legault, High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean presents one of the laptops donated by the...

THE JURIST PROJECT AND COVID-19...

The Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project is continuing to monitor the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on CARICOM Member States...

Judiciary Must be Committed to Huma...

The judiciary, while needing to discharge its role in specific times and context can only be a judiciary worthy of its name, if ...

INTERROGATE PERSONAL BIASES...

Judicial officers must interrogate their personal biases as well as those embedded in law and culture. This was the advice of the Honourable...

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES GETS...

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), with support from the Canadian funded Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project, launched a Mediation Public...

Media Releases

JURIST Project to hand-over IT equi...

The Canadian-funded Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project has been working with regional judiciaries to address delay and backlogs which directly affect...

Client and service standards traini...

The Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project in collaboration with the Barbados judiciary commenced client and service standards training for its court...

Adapting to the COVID-19 Reality: A...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 declared the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic. The deleterious effects of COVID-19 have permeated...

CAJO - Regional Magistrates' Forum...

JURIST PSC Meeting to be convened...

The Canadian-funded Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project will convene its 8th Project Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting on Thursday June 4, 2020...

CCJ ACADEMY FOR LAW HOSTS WEBINAR S...

The CCJ Academy for Law is pleased to announce that it will convert its 6th Biennial Conference into three online symposia all focused on...

Newsletters

ISSUE #15 | 2020...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday May 7, 2020 convened a meeting of key personnel in judiciaries, prosecutorial services, state agencies...

ISSUE #14 | 2020...

We are pleased to present to you Issue 14 of JURIST News. In this issue, we take a look at some of the...

ISSUE #13 | 2019...

Welcome to Issue 13 of JURIST News. We have been quite busy over the June – September period and we are excited to...

ISSUE #12 | 2019...

Issue 12 of JURIST News is presented for your reading pleasure. In this issue, we feature some of the activities that we, at...

ISSUE #11 | 2019...

We are pleased to present for your reading pleasure, Issue 11 of JURIST News. Featuring in this issue, is the historic opening of...

ISSUE #10 | 2018...

Welcome to Issue 10 of JURIST News. We take this opportunity to congratulate the Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders on his appointment as...

About the

JURIST Project

The Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project is a multi-year (2014-2023) regional Caribbean judicial reform initiative funded under an arrangement with the Government of Canada. The Project is being implemented on behalf of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the Conference of Heads of Judiciary of CARICOM (the Conference), by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which was appointed by the Conference as its Regional Executing Agency (REA).