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Recording system for Guyana Courts

Feb 04, 2013 News

 

 

Judges in the Court of Appeal, Commercial and the Chief Justice’s Courts will soon be able to down their pens and note pads as government has signaled the move to implement a high quality recording system.
This follows the successful implementation of the system during the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden unrest.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall explained that he was given the responsibility of setting up the infrastructure of the Linden Commission of Inquiry. He said in so doing, it was required to get the recording devices as well as the personnel to operate it. According to the AG, the Clerk of the National Assembly was contacted and he offered to lend a part of the system which is used in the National Assembly.
Nandlall said that he was surprised by the high quality of verbatim records of the COI which the small team was able to generate within a 24-hour basis. The AG said that he then realized that there is no good reason why the same cannot be replicated in the court system. As a result of this, Nandlall said, he consulted with officials from the Inter Development Bank, since they are the ones who are funding the Justice Modernization Project.
The Attorney General said that the idea was accepted by the IDB and they have agreed to include this intervention as the final phase of the project which is now ongoing. According to Nandlall, a pilot will be started with a few courts; the Court of Appeal, Chief Justice’s and Commercial Courts.
He said that if the trial is successful, it would be replicated in other courts including the Magistrates’ Court, the Georgetown, Berbice and Essequibo High Courts.
Recently the IDB with the Ministry of Legal Affairs, through its Project Secretariat for the Modernization of the Justice Administration System (MJAS) project launched the highly anticipated Law Reports of Guyana. The Law Reports volume was compiled and edited for the years 1977 to 2007 as one aspect of the Modernization of the Justice Administration System project. The MJAS Project is funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) by way of a Loan to the Government of Guyana (GoG) and is implemented by the Ministry of Legal Affairs.
The MJAS programme was designed as a hybrid facility comprising a policy-based component supported by a policy based loan of US$15M. A further investment and technical support component supported by an investment loan of US$10M was given. The investment component was intended to help implement the policy reform programme and also support initial capacity building activities in the justice sector institutions.

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