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The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) says it wel­comes sev­er­al jus­tice-re­lat­ed mea­sures an­nounced in the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get, de­scrib­ing them as pos­i­tive steps to­ward im­prov­ing ac­cess to jus­tice.

But is not say­ing whether or not it is un­hap­py with pro­posed cre­ation of a Ju­di­cia­ry Chan­cel­lor.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day a day af­ter Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion, LATT said it was “pleased” by the pro­posed ex­pan­sion of court fa­cil­i­ties in Ch­agua­nas, Rio Claro, San­gre Grande and Diego Mar­tin.