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CCJ Explains
Fri, July 25, 2014
Earlier this week, we told you about the labour conflicts at the Caribbean Court of Justice Headquarters in Port Of Spain Trinidad. Well, now, the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission has retained a Public Relations and Crisis Communications Agency which sent a lengthy release to all regional media today.

It refers most pointedly to Dr. Leighton Jackson's attack on the court. He is the Jamaican acting registrar of the court who was reportedly fired and has been bad mouthing management practices at the court. The release says the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission is "responding to set the record straight and to protect the Court, which is much larger and more important than the personalities involved."

They say that Dr. Jackson was not Dismissed but that the Dean of the Law Faculty at UWI wrote the President of the CCJ Wrote the court a letter saying that it is "necessary for him to return to his full duties." As for the restructuring which Jackson criticized as being secretive, the release says that he was invited to a review of the structure and manpower requirements of the court - but went to Jamaica instead.

It adds that some managers have greeted these efforts of reform directed at financial accountability with hostility but stresses that there is no industrial relations dispute at the Court or with the Commission other than the challenge by some managers to the authority of the Regional Judicial Legal Services Council in respect of human resources management and the restructuring decisions. The release closes by saying that no credence should therefore be attached to the warnings by Dr. Jackson of problems relating to the financial or other sustainability of the Court.



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