RENOWNED EXPERTS on access to information litigation from Canada and South Africa will join Jamaican lawyers and advocates for a one-day workshop on 'Litigation and Appeals under the Access to Information Act', on Saturday at the Courtleigh Hotel. David Goodis, a leading expert on access to information appeals in Canada where he is the legal director for the Information and Privacy Commissioner in Ontario, will be the guest speaker.
The workshop, hosted by The Carter Center, the Jamaican Bar Association, and the Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights, will explore strategies for attorneys to assist citizens in enforcing their rights to information before the Jamaican Appeals Tribunal and the courts of Jamaica.
The workshop is being held for the Volunteer Attorneys Panel for Access to Information and other attorneys and law students interested in litigation under the Act. The Volunteer Attorneys Panel consists of 32 attorneys who have agreed to take access to information cases free of cost before the courts and Appeals Tribunal.
Also speaking will be Nancy Anderson, legal officer with the Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights and Hilary Phillips, Q.C. of Grant, Stewart, Phillips & Co., Laura Neuman, senior programme associate of the Carter Center's Americas Programme, and Richard Calland, executive chair of the Open Democracy Advice Centre of South Africa.
