An angry Supreme Court judge has said she will not allow anyone to dictate her trial schedule.<\/p>\n
Justice Vera Watkins censured the newly-implemented case management policy of having Senior Supreme Court Justice Jon Isaacs set court dates for all of the criminal courts at arraignment.<\/p>\n
Last month, Attorney General John Delaney touted the new procedure as a means of achieving efficiency in the system.<\/p>\n
Delaney told the Senate of plans to implement a fifth court that would deal with hearings, arraignments and trial fixture dates for the other four trial courts.<\/p>\n
Delaney boasted that the case management had been partially implemented.<\/p>\n
Justice Watkins\u2019 rebuke is similar to action taken in 2006 by then Justice John Lyons who harshly criticized the Swift Justice Program initiated by then Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson. Justice Lyons sent back nine cases to the Criminal Registry that were set for his court, which he determined were not ready for a fair trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Supreme Court Judge Vera Watkins said she will not follow the newly implemented case management system because she doesn’t want anyone else setting her schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[151,127],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-court","tag-judges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}