Judiciary consults stakeholders on family court rules

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­sult­ed ju­di­cial of­fi­cers, le­gal prac­ti­tion­ers and jus­tice-sec­tor stake­hold­ers on ways to im­prove the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fam­i­ly jus­tice and en­sure the time­ly res­o­lu­tion of cas­es.

The con­sul­ta­tion, host­ed by the Ju­di­cial Ed­u­ca­tion In­sti­tute of Trinidad and To­ba­go (JEITT) on Fri­day, fo­cused on the prac­ti­cal ap­pli­ca­tion of the Fam­i­ly Pro­ceed­ings Rules 1998 and po­ten­tial ar­eas for pro­ce­dur­al re­form.

Dis­cus­sions cen­tred on chal­lenges af­fect­ing the man­age­ment of fam­i­ly mat­ters, the ef­fec­tive­ness of ex­ist­ing pro­ce­dures and mea­sures to make court process­es fair­er and more ef­fi­cient.