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THE Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), sitting in Guyana, on Wednesday denied a Guyanese man special leave to appeal to the CCJ to review a decision of the Court of Appeal of Guyana, which had affi...

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. On Wednesday, 21 June 2023, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), sitting in Guyana, delivered its judgment for the special

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has allowed the appeal of Ms Roxann Rachel Goddard in the Barbadian appeal of Goddard v Akojee & The Attorney General of Barbados BBCV2022/001.

By Emmanuel Joseph A local advocacy group has asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to rule on some recommendations that would expand protection for current and past victims of domestic violence. The recommendations submitted on Wednesday to the CCJ by Anya Lorde, the lawyer for Operation Safe Space (OSS), came as the Trinidad-based court delivered a ruling in favour of a

The end of a relationship will not prevent a former partner from obtaining a protection order. Yesterday the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) handed down a ruling that reversed a decision where the mother of a two-year-old son had been turned down for a protection order against the child’s father because they were no longer together. As a consequence of the decision, Attorney General Dale Marshall said the CCJ had …

Yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered its judgment in Ellis Richards & Ors. v The State of Trinidad and Tobago AGOJ2021/001...

The legal fraternity continues to express deep concern at the lengthy delays in delivering judgments in the High Courts of Barbados.Immediate past president of the Barbados Bar Association Rosalind Smith-Millar has lamented that “it remains a problem” even though, under her leadership, the association wrote to Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham and Prime Minister Mia Mottley on the issue.When Barbados TODAY reached out to Sir Patterson on Friday, he declined to comment.Today, there was b...

In a judgment released in the Original Jurisdiction matter of Rock Hard Distribution Limited, Rock Hard Distributors Limited and Mootilal...

April 30, 2021 Barbados’ highest appellate court, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), has yet again condemned the lower courts’ “unacceptable” delays in delivering judgments, issuing a strong call for an apology to the affected parties. A real estate dispute, which took the Court of Appeal in Bridgetown four years to decide on, prompted CCJ justice Denys Barrow to issue the rebuke as the Port of Spain-based court delivered the last word on the case. While declaring that the ...