| After 34 years Guyanese, particularly legal practitioners, can now access the updated Laws of Guyana between 1977 and 2010 without hassle. The revised version is available. The updated laws can be viewed on the Legal Affairs website. To date there have been 6,000 downloadsThe advance copies of the Laws of Guyana were yesterday handed over at the Parliament Building, Stabroek.The Modernization of the Justice Systems Project which is fully funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) by way of a loan to Government saw the completion of the volumes.According to Madame Justice Claudette Singh, Project Co-ordinator, at the heart of the programme there is the move to dispense with archaic procedural rules bringing Guyana in line with modern legal international trends,Cheap Jeseys NFL, best practices and standards.Madame Justice Singh emphasised that there was no official law revision in accordance with the Law Revision Act Cap. 2:02 since 1977. Consequently members of the legal profession had great difficulty knowing the correct status of the law especially if there was an amendment to any given legislation.She added,Cheap Jerseys From China, “Resort had to be made to the Consolidated Index produced by the University of the West Indies (UWI). If there was an amendment, one had to journey to Parliament Office to purchase the necessary amendments but now,Cheap Jerseys From China, with this Revision, life will be easier. Our laws would be found in one place.”Madame Justice Singh said that over the years Government,Cheap Jerseys, supported by the USAID,Cheap Jerseys From China Outlet, made no less than three attempts to have Laws updated but those attempts were aborted before the completion of the exercise.She said that out of the last attempt, a CD was developed but many errors were discovered because when the amendments were inserted, there was no verification of their accuracy.The fourth attempt to compile the Laws of Guyana, electronically, and print through the USAID-Guyana Democratic Consolidation and Conflict Project started in March 2008. It ended before it could have been completed.These exercises of updating the laws were confined to only the substantive legislation, so in this present project the largely untouched component of subsidiary legislation from 1977 to 2010 had to be addressed.Today, subsidiary legislation has been updated in tandem with the substantive laws up to December 2010. The printed volumes will be disseminated to Courts, Government Ministries and other key agencies.According to Marco Nicola,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, IDB Representative, this achievement marks a historic moment in the Justice Sector of Guyana. This sends a tangible signal that the modernization of the Justice Administration System has begun to deliver.The government has made a clear policy decision to address the problems in the effective and efficient delivery of justice in its national development strategy. One of the five governance issues in the poverty reduction strategy paper is public security and access to justice. |
