{"id":30236,"date":"2013-01-14T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30236"},"modified":"2013-01-14T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:00:48","slug":"video-testimony-soon-to-be-allowed-by-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/video-testimony-soon-to-be-allowed-by-courts","title":{"rendered":"Video Testimony Soon To Be Allowed By Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-21592\" title=\"allyson-maynard-gibson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/allyson-maynard-gibson.jpg\" alt=\"Allyson Maynard Gibson\" width=\"220\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/allyson-maynard-gibson.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/allyson-maynard-gibson-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/allyson-maynard-gibson-203x250.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson said that legislation to allow video conferencing to be used in matters prior to criminal cases going to trial is expected to be brought to parliament shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Legal Year Opening on Wednesday morning, Mrs Maynard-Gibson said that video conferencing, along with other technological measures to be implemented, would improve the efficiency of the\u00a0 Bahamas\u2019 judiciary and make it the best among the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effective use of video conferencing is a critical tool for efficiency and cost saving\u201d said Mrs Maynard-Gibson, adding that in 2012, \u201cevidence has been received by video conferencing in several cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegislation will shortly be brought to Parliament that will enable bails, arraignments, case management and any other application before trial to be conducted by video conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy January 2014, we hope that Judges and Magistrates will see fit, save in exceptional cases, to bring from Her Majesty\u2019s Prison only persons being tried; all other matters being heard by video conference from the remand centre at the prison.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation allowing video conferencing to be used in court matters is expected to be brought to parliament soon, along with other technology that could improve the ailing Bahamas judiciary.<\/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":[5],"tags":[151,88],"class_list":["post-30236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-court","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236","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=30236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}