Over the period June – October 2020, the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) provided a three-module judgment writing training programme to Trinidad and Tobago’s Office of Procurement Regulation (OPR). This programme was delivered remotely to over twenty-five officers from the OPR, including their Board of Directors.

The programme was designed and developed by Justice Peter Jamadar, Chair of the CAJO, Justice Gregory Smith, Justice of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago, Ms Lynn-Marie Edwards, Judicial Research Counsel to Justice Smith, and the CAJO’s Research and Programme Coordinator, Elron Elahie. 

As part of the continued transition to remote learning and training delivery, the CAJO designed and implemented, with the invaluable assistance of the Caribbean Court of Justice’s Multimedia Officer Mr Paul Aqui, a virtual classroom set-up that sought to eliminate the impersonal and mundane nature of behind-the-desk delivery. The virtual classroom, which contained a number of moving parts, afforded the presenters an environment to engage dynamic presentations and brought the participants ‘in the space’ through the use of television screens, all facilitated through Microsoft Teams.