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Since 2006, my court case has not been heard

Dec 15, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is universally known and accepted that no man is perfect. The only perfect person is GOD ALMIGHTY. It therefore bothers me very much when I look at the newscast on TV and read the daily papers to see the Opposition Party through its leading spokesperson always finding fault with what this current Government is doing and rarely if ever congratulating President Granger for all the different things he is striving to achieve including the cleansing of  Georgetown.
On the other hand the Government is justifiably expressing the short coming of the Opposition while they were governing this country over the 23 years when Minister Harmon raised the Jagdeo issue. All this goes to show how correct the universal statement is that no one is perfect.
I wish to propose that there should be a broad-based collective effort by all to achieve a common objective in developing a GUYANA for all Guyanese. At present things are done in a piece meal fashion. What I do mean is that every area of Government needs the support of the other. You cannot encourage mining and not have an efficient judiciary to deal with matters of dispute. You need healthy people to carry out the various activities so health is important to everyone. Again if there is not proper security there will be problems in economic development.
Therefore my contention is all the areas for development must be jointly reviewed as each affects the other. Let us look at the current status of the judiciary. It is very humble opinion that there is serious need to have an immediate reassessment of what is in place. As a lawyer who has been practicing in Guyana in excess of 40 years. I am constantly confronted and embarrassed when clients ask why their case is taking so long. I always try to explain it is not the lawyer’s fault and use my own experience to explain that in 2006 December I had an accident which wrote off my car and caused me to go to the United States of America to have brain surgery. In 2007, a leading attorney in Guyana filed an action on my behalf and until now the case is not yet heard despite all the effort made by myself and my attorney. Now while I do agree that at present the judiciary is making an effort to become efficient in setting up a Commercial Section and a Family Court I feel much more has to be done. The old
fashion system of having a Judge to do (3) three months CIVIL WORK then go off to the Criminal Assizes should end.
My humble view is that if a Judge is allocated to a particular section overtime he/she becomes more efficient and experienced in what is being done and this in itself will lead to a faster determination of cases. The last point is that Judges should each have a young lawyer as their Registrar. This will have a twofold effect. Firstly, young lawyers get an opportunity to become better aware of the functions of the judiciary as well as equipped for opportunities in various section of the judiciary such as Magistrate Registrars of the Court, Court Prosecutors etc. By approaching issues in the way I have suggested I believe that GUYANA will be properly equipping itself to moving on to great success. This is my Christmas gift to the People of Guyana. Have a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous 2016.
 Jonas Coddett
 Attorney-at-law

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