Lawyers not tackling regional challenges

A MEMBER OF THE legal fraternity is suggesting that lawyers in the Caribbean may have become complacent and were not working together to tackle regional challenges.
Described by some of his colleagues as “a controversial character”, president of the Trinidad & Tobago Bar Association, Martin Daly, in the feature address at the annual Barbados Bar Association dinner at Royal Pavilion, St James, told the lawyers they had serious challenges which should be addressed urgently.
“As lawyers, we have to ask ourselves if we have become a bit complacent. We have problems with preliminary enquiries  . . . .  Throughout the Caribbean we have challenges in the rule of law and the judiciary every day. And the question we have to ask ourselves as regional lawyers is do we really put our foot down and say that things are wrong?” he said. (MM)