{"id":29852,"date":"2013-01-04T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29852"},"modified":"2013-01-04T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:50:24","slug":"courts-new-years-resolution-swift-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/courts-new-years-resolution-swift-justice","title":{"rendered":"Court&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Resolution: Swift Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26464\" title=\"gavel-court-delay-scehdule\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gavel-court-delay-scehdule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gavel-court-delay-scehdule.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gavel-court-delay-scehdule-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A commitment to ensuring cases are heard more swiftly would be a good New Year\u2019s resolution for the judiciary, Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Tribune yesterday, Mr Gomez said the Magistrate\u2019s Court intends to use the accusations of long waits and delayed justice levelled in 2012, as motivation over the next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been getting a lot of criticism. I think in 2013 we\u2019ll try our best to make sure cases are heard expeditiously and make people feel like they&#8217;re receiving justice, because a lot of people complain that they have to wait too long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said that a good New Year\u2019s resolution for the Bahamian court system would be to commit to hearing cases in a more timely manner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[12],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-29852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}