President of the Barbados Bar Association Rosalind Smith-Millar has joined the chorus of calls for court cases to be dealt with in a timely manner. However, she warned, all cases are different and cannot be held to the same timeline.Speaking on the recent decision by Justice Cicely-Chase to award murder accused Larry Patrick Agard $95 000 in compensation for the 14-year delay in having his matter heard, Smith-Millar agreed that such a significant delay was unacceptable.She told Barbados TODAY, the justice system needed to be more efficient.However, she suggested that all cases were different and therefore to attach a timeline might be difficult.“I think we need guidelines but I don’t think it could be feasible to have hard and fast rules because every case is going to be different, every investigation is going to have its own path and require its own timeline, but I do think that there must be a greater effort to ensure that accused persons have their trials in a timely manner…
