Chairman of the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) retired Justice Christopher Blackman has blasted some lawyers for their lethargy which has delayed the work of the ERT.However, Justice Blackman has given the assurance that the unavailability of those lawyers had not stopped the tribunal’s work , which has centred around case management.He told Barbados TODAY the tribunal had been meeting via Zoom, hearing matters as recently as this week.But he complained that certain attorneys were stalling the progress.“A lot of cases are being done currently by what you call being case managed. The hearings we’ve tried to have, the lawyers for the parties say they are going on holiday and hopefully we will have some hearings either at the end of the month or into September.“We have quite a few down for hearing in September but that’s the challenge. We’ve been waiting to get the lawyers on board because a lot of the lawyers are playing the fool in terms of their availability. But I have one decision outstanding which I am halfway through writing which I hope to hand down.
