Trinidad and Tobago Juvenile Court Project

19/11/2018

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06/06/2018

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our stakeholders for your support during the course of our Juvenile Court Project. We would also like to especially thank USAID Eastern and Southern Caribbean and UNDP Trinidad and Tobago for their partnership over the past 3.5 years. With your help, we were able to make significant strides towards improving the Children Court system in Trinidad and Tobago. As the Project has come to a close, we invite you to share this short video of our journey and achievements over the life of the Project. We also welcome you to follow the Family and Children Division of the High Court for continued updates on the progress of the Children Court.

06/06/2018

Volunteer Opportunity!

Visit the Family and Children Division of the High Court page for more information.

24/04/2018

Vacancy Alert!
Visit the page for more information.

The Family and Children Division of the High Court invites eligible individuals to apply for the following positions:

FCD Court Reporting Administrator
FCD Executive Accountant
Court Security Officer

Deadline for applications: 10:00 pm, Saturday 5 May, 2018

For more information, please click the following link:

http://jobs.ttlawcourts.org

15/03/2018

We did it! For the last 3.5 years the Trinidad and Tobago Juvenile Court Project--alongside many many stakeholders in the justice sector--worked to develop a new Children Court System for Trinidad and Tobago. This entailed among many other things, new facilities to house the operations of the Children Court. The facilities located in St. Clair, P.O.S. and Fyzabad became operational on February 28, 2018. An official opening ceremony was held one week later on March 6th and 7th, 2018.

Here a just a few photos from the opening of the North and South Children Court Facilities

22/01/2018

JOB ALERTS FOR TOBAGO: We are pleased to share with you the below advertisement for Children Court vacancies in TOBAGO. Interested persons are invited to visit http://jobs.ttlawcourts.org for further information about the jobs identified.

Applications must be made on the APPROPRIATE application form and submitted together with the other documents specified by 12:00 midnight on Saturday 3rd February, 2018.

Please follow the instructions as presented on http://jobs.ttlawcourts.org.

For further enquiries, please contact the FCD Human Resource Unit at [email protected].

18/12/2017

If you cannot map where you are going, how will you know if you are lost? We're sitting in on a training session with staff of the Family and Children Division

14/12/2017

Season’s Greetings Everyone!

We haven’t been online for a while but we’ve been working diligently offline.
Here is an update on what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks!
We’ve been assisting the Judiciary with training of new staff on-boarded within the new Family and Children Division of the Judiciary. They are being trained in several areas such as understanding the rights, laws and rules related to children.
Check out this compilation from the training sessions!

05/10/2017

We came across this interesting post. Parents, do your children get this much sleep?

27/09/2017

We dropped in on trainees during day 2 of their training in digital voice transcription. The Children Court will be the first users of digital voice transcription technology in the CARICOM region. It is expected that the adoption of the technology will improve efficiency in producing court transcripts. Court transcripts are usually requested by attorneys and other officers of the Court for different reasons and at different times. For example, attorneys may request transcripts during preliminary enquiries, and for complex matters. The Director of Public Prosecutions may also request transcripts when an accused person is acquitted and the Court usually requires them when a notice of appeal is filed.

At present, the Judiciary uses rapid text entry and Computer Aided Transcription. Sourcing CAT reporters is particularly difficult since the process of becoming a CAT reporter is an expensive undertaking with a high failure rate. The training of digital voice transcriptionists widens the pool of professionals from which the Judiciary can select. Fifteen persons are currently undergoing the training which is being facilitated by COSTAATT .