The document summarizes the court system of Jamaica. It describes the main levels and functions of the courts, including the Petty Sessions Court, Resident Magistrate's Court, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and Privy Council. The highest courts are the Court of Appeal and Privy Council, with the lower courts handling less serious criminal and civil cases.
The document summarizes the court system of Jamaica. It describes the main levels and functions of the courts, including the Petty Sessions Court, Resident Magistrate's Court, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and Privy Council. The highest courts are the Court of Appeal and Privy Council, with the lower courts handling less serious criminal and civil cases.
The document summarizes the court system of Jamaica. It describes the main levels and functions of the courts, including the Petty Sessions Court, Resident Magistrate's Court, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and Privy Council. The highest courts are the Court of Appeal and Privy Council, with the lower courts handling less serious criminal and civil cases.
www.moj.gov.jm/node and http://youthlinkjamaica.com/cxc/socialstudies20090217.html The main function of the courts is to see that justice reaches people who have been wronged.
In Jamaica and most other Caribbean
countries, the court system include; the Petty Sessions , the Resident Magistrate, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council which act as a final court of appeal. The Privy Council Court System of Jamaica
Court of Appeal – Highest court
in Jamaica
Defendants have the right to appeal a conviction
of any of the three trial courts to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal consists of the president of the Court of Appeal, the chief justice and six judges. Court System of Jamaica Supreme Court –
Consists of the Chief Justice, a Senior
Puisne Judge and at least twenty other Puisne Judges.
Puisne Judges must be Attorneys-at-
law of at least ten years standing. Court System of Jamaica
Supreme Court -
Criminal cases come to the Circuit Court or
Supreme Court from the resident magistrate.
The Supreme Court is also concerned with civil
actions arising from negligence, breach of contract, slander, libel, trespass, divorce administration, equity, guardianship of infants and the estate of lunatics. Court System of Jamaica Resident Magistrate’s Court- There is one in every Parish. This Court presides over both civil and criminal matters .
This Court has no power to hold a trial for
certain criminal offences including murder, treason and rape, however in such cases a Preliminary Examination or enquiry into the charge is held. Court System of Jamaica Petty Sessions Court
Deals with minor offences and is usually
presided over by a justice of the peace. This court deals with offences such as small thefts, assaults, malicious injury to property, drunkenness and cruelty to animals among other lesser crimes. Court System of Jamaica
Traffic Court
The traffic court deals with breaches of
the Road Traffic Act within the Corporate Area of Kingston and St Andrew. Traffic breaches in the other parishes are dealt with in the resident magistrate's courts. Court System of Jamaica The Coroner's Court
A coroner is an officer who holds
inquests on the bodies of persons supposed to have died by violence or accident, in order to determine whether the death was natural or caused.
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