The UWI Cave Hill Campus Annual Report to Council 2021/2022

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IMPROVED ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN THE CARIBBEAN (IMPACT JUSTICE) The IMPACT Justice Project which is being implemented from within the Caribbean Law Institute Centre, continued to be funded by the Government of Canada under exten- sions for three years after its original end date of March 2019. The main goals of the Project continued to be the enhance- ment of access to justice benefitting men, women, youth and businesses in CARICOM. Its main partners continued to be the governments of CARICOM countries, the judiciary, bar associations, faculties of law, civil society groups, espe- cially those focusing on the elderly, persons with disabilities, children, women, Indigenous Peoples and other disadvan- taged persons.

sessions, and promoting the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution by training additional mediators.

Model Legislation and Training of Legislative Drafters By the end of the period, the IMPACT Justice drafted Model Business Names Registration Bill and the Model Sexual Harassment Bill which were completed during the first three years of the Project. These have now both been updated. The move to update the first Bill was spearheaded by the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit of the CARICOM Secretariat and the second, by Ms Roberta Clarke, the Barbados representative on the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. In addition, IMPACT Justice drafted a Medicinal Marijuana Bill for the Government of

During the period under review, the IMPACT Justice Project continued its programme of drafting Model Laws for the CARICOM region, conducting public legal education

Screenshot of Expert Group meeting to review and update the IMPACT Justice Model Sexual Harassment Bill : Top left- bottom right: Ms Roberta Clarke, Commissioner to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission; Ms Lydia Elliott, Attorney-at-Law and legislative Drafter; Dr Purna Sen, Visiting Professor, London Metropolitan University; and Professor Velma Newton, Regional Project Director, IMPACT Justice Project

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES CAVE HILL CAMPUS ANNUAL REPORT TO COUNCIL 2021/2022

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