{"id":245213,"date":"2004-04-01T01:46:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T06:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/lawyers-at-fault-for-court-delays"},"modified":"2004-04-01T01:46:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T06:46:49","slug":"lawyers-at-fault-for-court-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/lawyers-at-fault-for-court-delays","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers At Fault For Court Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Munroe, who was a guest on the Radio Love 97FM  Talk Show &#8216;Contact&#8217;, hosted by Mike Smith, said the easy way out is to fault the courts but the courts are not always to blame.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;Sometimes people don&#8217;t apply themselves. As a lawyer, I might not press my client&#8217;s case as firmly as I ought. In fact, all of us learned this lesson in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court because a lot of us weren&#8217;t doing what we ought to do to press matters,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Munroe also spoke of the state of the Attorney General&#8217;s office, saying clearly, it is a demoralized office.<br \/>\n<P><B>Hadassah Hall, The Bahama Journal<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Bahamas Bar Association Wayne Munroe said Monday that a lot of the  problems in the judicial system are due to lawyers who are not pressing their cases, thereby causing delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245213","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}