Senator Nicholson urges full support for CCJ

(JIS) Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson, is urging full support for the adoption of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as Jamaica’s final appellate court.

In underscoring the court’s integrity, Minister Nicholson maintained that the judgments delivered are of high quality and not open to political manipulation.

“The argument about fixing our local justice system before taking this step (also) holds no water,” he pointed out, noting that no other former colony of Britain that has abolished the Privy Council has established its own court of appeal.[su_box title=”The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)” style=”soft” box_color=”#54c0f0″]The CCJ was inaugurated on 16 April, 2005 in Trinidad and Tobago where it is headquartered. Its central role is providing legal certainty to the operations of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). It is structured to have two jurisdictions – an original and an appellate. In its original jurisdiction it ensures uniform interpretation and application of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, thereby underpinning and advancing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. As the final court of appeal for Member States of the Caribbean Community it fosters the development of an indigenous Caribbean jurisprudence[/su_box]

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