Acting Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court visits the BVI
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| Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
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ROAD TOWN, BVI: Several matters were discussed when British Virgin Islands Premier Ralph O’Neal, received a courtesy visit on Tuesday from the outgoing Acting Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Brian Alleyne.
Among other things, the Premier and Justice Alleyne spoke about is an initiative to establish a Commercial Division of the ECSC in the Virgin Islands to deal with major international commercial litigation. They also discussed current efforts to recruit a judge for the new division.
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| Acting Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Brian Alleyne. |
“I informed Justice Alleyne about the Territory’s progress in areas like infrastructural development, creation of space for the commercial division, and the construction of a court building to serve the judicial needs of the Virgin Islands,” the Premier said.
In addition the Premier noted that he was pleased to receive an update on the status of the Court’s reform programme, which aims to introduce new procedures and rules for expediting the processing of criminal trials within the Court’s jurisdiction.
Alleyne is expected to retire from the ECSC in the next three months and was on his final official visit to the Territory for court-related purposes. “For that reason I paid a courtesy call on the Premier just to say my farewells formally and review a number of issues that we are dealing with at the moment and that are coming to fruition,” he said.
Established in 1967, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court is a Superior Court of record for the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadine, Anguilla, and Montserrat. It has unlimited jurisdiction in each member state. Among its functions, the ECSC interprets and applies the laws of its members, to decide cases of both civil and criminal matters and to hear appeals. | | | | Reads : 412 | | | |
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