Group to look at relevance of Island laws
Saturday 3rd July 2010, 2:59PM BST.
New Law Commission chairman Clive Chaplin
ARE there any outdated or unnecessary laws which you think should be scrapped? If so, the Jersey Law Commission wants to hear from you.
The group of expert lawyers, whose job is to examine Island laws to see whether any should be reviewed or repealed, is about to compile a three-year plan setting out which pieces of legislation it will look at.
In the Saturday Interview in today’s Jersey Evening Post, commission chairman Clive Chaplin, the non-executive chairman of Ogier Group, says that there are a number of obsolete laws and issues which might warrant attention.
He says, for example, that the commission could look at the cost of lawyers, the desirability of the use of French by the legal profession when most Islanders speak only English, and the effect on the administration of justice by the use of Jurats rather than juries in trials.
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Did I get that right they will take three years to decide which laws to look at. How on earth do they do that, they must look at them while they decide.
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How about the purchase and sale of a house? Use the contract and exchange system and not rely on people turning up at court on a Friday who can pull out up until the head is nodded! why is it still in French as well? three years is probably not long enough to look at the arcane situation over here pertaining to many laws…
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Haha! This is like shutting the door after the horse has bolted.
Remember the waterfront and the dsiputed ownership. We all thought it belonged to the States and the Jersey people, when in fact a forgotten, but now wealthy lawyer and consortium abused Jersey’s feudal laws to steal it.
Still a raw nerve, especially when you see the that Frankenstein has been used as the architect since then.
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I would suggest that before islanders are asked which laws they believe should be repealed or reviewed, they are first given easy access to an understandable copy of island law.
But this being Jersey, such logic was never considered, was it?
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Marijuana, make it legal. Toughen up on hard drugs, longer prison sentences, no tax payer funded rehabilitation! – Toughen up on Alcohol fueled violence both in the street & the home, driving under the influence of alcohol – SENTENCE them first offense & MAKE IT COUNT!! – Take a logical move like Amsterdam & make the HARMLESS plant Marijuana COMPLETELY legal for over 18′s/21′s. Screw F.R.A.N.K, that’s governmental propoganda. At the end of that day, ALCOHOL is a hell of a lot more damaging in EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE!!! < AND THE POLICE KNOW THIS, SO DOES THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!! < Toughen up on this & relax the Marijuana law.
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I LOVE comment number three, totally agreed!! – ITS DISGUSTING TO LOOK AT!!! – Pull it down & recreate it so it suites our culture, our history & tradition…..JERSEY!!!
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Can we have a freedom of information law ?
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Comment 5 C@rLinHo5 – I’m guessing that you want to relax the marijuana law as you mentioned it 3 times. too stoned to notice the duplication I suspect.
Marijuana is not the safe drug many would have us think, as a 20 year ex stoner I can assure you that I was paranoid and totally lacking in motivation throughout the time I used it. I agree alcohol is worse but Bop Hope is not a harmless drug without side effects.
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Ron Asheton – you have got easy access to most of the island’s laws on http://www.jerseylaw.je
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