Court of Ap­peal Judge, Jus­tice Gillian Lucky, will tack­le is­sues im­pact­ing the jus­tice sys­tem in a pub­lic lec­ture host­ed by The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, Fac­ul­ty of So­cial Sci­ences, this Thurs­day, No­vem­ber 10.

The pub­lic lec­ture ti­tled, “Is Jus­tice Elu­sive? A Per­spec­tive from the Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Sys­tem”, will be held at Daa­ga Au­di­to­ri­um, The UWI, St Au­gus­tine, be­tween 6:00 and 7:30 pm on Thurs­day.

Jus­tice Gillian Lucky is a Court of Ap­peal Judge as well as Chair­man of the Ju­di­cial Ed­u­ca­tion In­sti­tute of Trinidad and To­ba­go. She is al­so a lec­tur­er at the Fac­ul­ty of Law at The UWI and the Hugh Wood­ing Law School.

Jus­tice Lucky has con­duct­ed work­shops in the re­gion deal­ing with top­ics such as the ad­mis­si­bil­i­ty of dig­i­tal ev­i­dence, mon­ey laun­der­ing, case man­age­ment, and prin­ci­ples and method­ol­o­gy in sen­tenc­ing. 

Her work­shops al­so have delved in­to gang and ter­ror­ist pros­e­cu­tions, the in­ves­ti­ga­tion of se­ri­ous and vi­o­lent crimes, judge-alone tri­als, max­i­mum sen­tence hear­ings and crim­i­nal pro­ce­dure rules. She has worked on sev­er­al ini­tia­tives to deal with the back­log in crim­i­nal cas­es.