Page 24 - Offences Against News Today

Asserting that the State is being driven by an “agenda” to preserve the country’s buggery laws, the Supreme Court says it is worrying that savings law clauses are being used to prevent scrutiny of laws violating citizens’ rights. “… It is...

THE Constitutional Court on Friday pointed out that the savings law clause in Jamaica's Charter of Rights does in fact bar the courts from enquiring into whether three provisions under sex offence...

Our legislators are under constant pressure to fulfil their constitutional mandate, which is to make laws for the peace, order and good governance of the land; that includes making laws to signal that as a country we are “tough on crime”. Mandatory...

OUR actions have consequences — some of which can end up leaving us worse off. A reminder — if any was needed — came this week from legislators on both sides of the Parliament. They were express...

The Supreme Court has ruled that the constitutionality of three sections of the Offences Against the Person Act "cannot be enquired into" because of the Constitution's savings law clause. The ruling dismisses gay rights activist...

LEGISLATORS are concerned about the impact higher minimum sentences for murder will have on the country's two high-security prisons — St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and the Tower Street Ad...

Today, October 26, 2023, marks the 35th anniversary of a monumental ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the Irish State in the case of Norris v Ireland. The decision had been five years in the making, but it was one which would irrevocably change the landscape of LGBTQ+ rights in this…

CHILDREN’S ADVOCATE Diahann Gordon Harrison has cautioned against any legislative move to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years for children convicted of capital murder. According to Gordon Harrison, a mandatory minimum that is absolute...

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck is holding fast to his view that children of a certain age who are convicted of capital murder should serve a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison before being elig...

THE delicate issue of how to deal with children who commit murders remained a key area of deliberations for legislators on Tuesday. Under the Child Care and Protection (Amendment) Act, 2023, now ...