Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is urging Jamaicans to embrace estate planning, peaceful conflict resolution, and closer cooperation with the police, as critical factors in limiting family disputes and social disorder, which he says is helping to fuel violence across the country.

Chuck, who was speaking at yesterday’s first of several regional Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Policy Development and Estate Planning Forum at the Ocean Coral Spring Resort, in Trelawny, Chuck said inheritance disputes and unresolved conflicts continue to place a heavy burden on the justice system while contributing to tensions within communities.

“We have a major problem in that the administrator general is burdened. They dispose of hundreds of cases every year, but the more they dispose of cases, the more cases come in,” said Chuck.