The government is looking for a consultant to help it craft a bill that will end time-consuming preliminary inquiries (PIs) in what will be a major reform of the criminal justice system here.
“We are now moving in the direction of drafting legislation to abolish PIs at criminal trials. This initiative has already been taken in England and in various countries in the Caribbean…It is public knowledge that a Preliminary Inquiry takes years to determine, and has caused a tremendous backlog in the criminal justice system, hence the movement to abolish it across the Commonwealth,” Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC told Stabroek News yesterday.
In a procurement notice published in the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, the Ministry made the request for applications for the project which is funded through a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).