{"id":19406,"date":"2018-08-30T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=19406"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:45:00","slug":"commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY-The CCJ \u2013 A Court for the People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are his own)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the 185-year history of the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council, it has never provided access for people of little means except for a few persons on death row who got free legal service from British lawyers.<\/p>

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This stands in stark contrast to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) where, in the three years following its inception in 2005, civil appeals outnumbered criminal appeals by almost seven to one.\u00a0\u00a0About 15 per cent of the civil cases filed in the CCJ were from persons too poor to pay filing costs which the court waived, giving poor people unprecedented access to appeals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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These cases have included: a property dispute between two poor tenants, a public housing agency\u2019s contractual obligation to a signatory\u2019s next of kin, the admissibility of a police officer\u2019s testimony in a case of child molestation, and a civil servant\u2019s dismissal through the statutory abolishment of his appointment.\u00a0\u00a0There have been others.\u00a0\u00a0Importantly, these cases came from only four countries that had signed-up to the CCJ as their final appellate court.\u00a0\u00a0They would have been much more numerous if all the people of CARICOM had access to the CCJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Court of final appeal in criminal and civil matters, the CCJ is truly a people\u2019s court.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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An authoritative study, conducted by Andrew N. Maharajh and published by Cornell University, analyses the costs involved in appealing to the Privy Council in contrast to the CCJ.\u00a0\u00a0The findings show overwhelmingly that the CCJ is much more accessible to the less well-off than is the Privy Council, reinforcing that the CCJ is as much a people\u2019s court as it is a final arbiter for wealthy business persons and governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, the study finds that \u201cthe cost of filing an appeal with the Privy Council is more than five times greater than filing an appeal with the CCJ.\u00a0\u00a0A comparison of other associated filing costs for both courts reveals a similar ratio\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Other big expenses are incurred to take a case to the Privy Council.\u00a0\u00a0Persons making an appeal have to buy plane tickets for themselves and their local lawyer and find and hire an English licensed solicitor to prepare the case file; in some cases, they must also retain expensive British barristers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Additionally, the cost of accommodation in London for the duration of the litigation has to be met.\u00a0\u00a0In any event, two sets of lawyer\u2019s fees must be paid.\u00a0\u00a0According to the study, all of this produces a very expensive appeals process, estimated at an average minimum cost of US$65,000.\u00a0\u00a0Clearly, outside the reach of any but the wealthy.<\/p>

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By contrast, overall costs of appeals to the CCJ are considerably cheaper.\u00a0\u00a0There is no need for two separate sets of lawyers, a local law firm can appear before the CCJ; costs of travel to Trinidad, the seat of the Court, is cheaper than to London; the CCJ is also a travelling Court, therefore there might be no need for lawyers to travel. Most importantly, the CCJ allows lawyers to appear from their homes or offices via its video conferencing facilities.\u00a0\u00a0Additionally, the CCJ operates an e-filing system to receive and process all filings electronically, eliminating the cost for lawyers\u2019 travel and accommodation and, thereby, the overall cost to the litigants.\u00a0<\/p>

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If all CARICOM states took advantage the CCJ as a final court of appeal, not only would wealthy persons and governments have access to the court, but ordinary people, across the region, would enjoy considerably better access to justice than they do now. Social equality in the justice system would, at last, be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, all CARICOM tax payers have already paid for access to the more affordable CCJ.\u00a0\u00a0Every CARICOM government has contributed from its tax revenues to the Trust Fund that independently finances the Court.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, currently, the people of eight CARICOM countries, particularly the less well-off, are being denied access to an affordable justice system for which they have paid \u2013 it is a people-asset from which the people are blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, as an example, over the last 28 years, 1990 to 2018, only 37 appeals have been made to the Privy Council from Antigua and Barbuda, one of the countries that is still tied to the British Privy Council. Of the 37 appeals, 7 were criminal and 30 were civil.\u00a0\u00a0In the clear majority of civil cases, only big companies and the government were involved, precisely because only they can afford the costs involved in appeals to the Privy Council.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Poor Antiguans and Barbudans, like their peers in other CARICOM countries, simply cannot afford the costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the same token, less well-off persons, from the four CARICOM countries that are part of the CCJ appellate process, have utilized the Court which has facilitated the applications of the poorest even in civil cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What then of the quality of justice that the CCJ delivers?\u00a0\u00a0The judgements of the Court have been widely and internationally acclaimed.\u00a0\u00a0They are all available on the Court\u2019s website for public scrutiny.\u00a0\u00a0Each of the Judges of the Court is highly respected by their peers in the global judicial system.\u00a0It should be recalled that the English-speaking Caribbean has been producing lawyers, expert in many fields, for over a hundred years.\u00a0\u00a0Those lawyers have served in many capacities in the region and the world and have contributed enormously to international jurisprudence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Judges of the British Privy Council also gave great service to the development of law in Commonwealth countries and beyond for which they are commended.\u00a0\u00a0But, they do not possess the infallibility with which they are decorated by those in our region who cling to them.\u00a0\u00a0Their decisions have been repeatedly overruled by both the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Judges of the CCJ are, at the very least, the equals of the British Privy Council.\u00a0\u00a0And, as the facts bear out, the CCJ is the Caribbean people\u2019s court as much for the poor as the rich.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are his own) Throughout the 185-year history of the Judicial Committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY-The CCJ \u2013 A Court for the People - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY-The CCJ \u2013 A Court for the People\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are his own) Throughout the 185-year history of the Judicial Committee […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-30T18:44:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-30T18:45:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY-The CCJ \u2013 A Court for the People\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-30T18:44:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-08-30T18:45:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/\"},\"wordCount\":1052,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:340\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Letters to the editor\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-the-ccj-a-court-for-the-people\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY-The CCJ \u2013 A Court for the People - 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