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Lawyers and Members of Judiciary Restore Courtrooms

Contact: George Jude

Monday, May 24, 2004 - Lawyers and Members of the local Judiciary will be in the Courtrooms over the next two weekends, but on a different kind of assignment. They will he actively involved in restoration work on three Courtrooms in the main court buildings in Castries.

The $15,000 project is being financed by the Lawyers and Judges themselves, and they will carry out the work under the supervision of building contractor, Mr. Walter Joseph of La Clery.

The work will be carried out on the main District Court, the Orientation Room and the Traffic Court. It will involve painting and minor renovations of the ceilings, the replacement of damaged doors and benches and the installation of air conditioning in one of the Courtrooms to make it more conducive to efficient working by keeping out noise from the surrounding environment, especially traffic noises.

Preliminary work on the project actually began last week, but the main tasks will be carried out over the next two weekends. Chief Justice Sir Dennis Byron commenting on the project said: “This is an important public relations exercise for those of us who are involved in the dispensing of justice. We have heard the complaints about the conditions in the Courts and have decided to do something about it ourselves”.

In this way, Sir Dennis said, the Lawyers and Judges would demonstrate in tangible terms their care about the state of the environment in which justice is dispensed.

The Chief Justice lauded the involvement of the contractor, whom he said had offered to supervise the project at minimal cost, because of his own personal concern about the existing state of the Courtrooms.

 

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