ARTICLE - COURT CLERKS - STRIKE

THE STRIKE OF CLERKS PARALYZES A PART OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM
(Haiti Libre) -

Clerks of the country have been on strike since Wednesday, January 25, demanding from the Haitian state a salary adjustment. Deputy Jean Tholbert Alexis of the Justice Commission reminded the clerks, that if they should indeed have better salary conditions, they must have the patriotic spirit and find a common ground with the Ministry of Justice, so that these adjustments are undertaken gradually.

The Deputy stated that justice is a sensitive area, and that he is concerned about the lack of service to the public during this strike; of which he highlighted the serious consequences.... "if there is a death due to an accident, there must be a clerk, a Justice of the Peace to make the observation [...] The operation of lawyers has been paralyzed, because if for example, a lawyer must take an execution or a ruling it's the clerk who must carry them, [...] you know that some delay can be short [...] but when the delay time has been exceeded, ... that those concerned did not act within the time, then we are foreclosed and when we are foreclosed, we can not go back [in a case] [...]"

Before the paralysis of a part of the judicial system, Deputy Jean Tholbert Alexis asked the Prime Minister, Dr. Garry Conille to get involved in negotiations with the Minister of Justice to quickly unlock this serious situation.