CCJ president urges local courts to adopt digital transcription of testimony

Sir Dennis Byron

In an era where judges and magistrates in Guyana still manually record the testimony of witnesses, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Sir Dennis Byron says it is time for the courts to move to digital transcription as a means of reducing delay.

He identified this as being one of the problem areas of trial management in Guyana.

He said that while reducing delay and improving court efficiency are often thought to be expensive process, they are not.

The CCJ head was at the time addressing the gathering at the 37th Annual Bar Dinner, which was held at the Pegasus Hotel on November 11th.

Delivering the keynote address at the event, the judge said