Law School lecturer at international talks

Debra Morris, a lecturer with the Cayman Islands Law
School (back row, centre) attended the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) Subregional Meeting on
International Labour Standards along with lawyers,
judges and legal educators

Thursday, June 10, 2004

A Cayman Islands Law School lecturer answered many queries, including those regarding the new Employment Law, at a recent meeting concerning international labour standards.

Debra Morris travelled to Trinidad to attend the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Subregional Meeting on International Labour Standards for Lawyers, Judges and Legal Educators, held 17-21 May.

She explained: “Two key objectives of the meeting were to equip law professionals to implement International Labour Standards (ILS) at the national level, and to use or teach ways of incorporating International Labour Law into national case law.”

Other objectives were mastering the content and regulations of the ILS, using tools and documents that allow an in-depth understanding, and identifying and using ILS in key areas such as freedom of association and discrimination.

“It was valuable to listen to ILO experts, and share experience and information with each other,” Ms Morris noted.

Organisers of the course were the ILO’s International Training Centre (based in Turin, Italy) and the ILO Sub regional Office for the Caribbean (based in Trinidad and Tobago), in collaboration with the Industrial Court of Trinidad and Tobago.

In addition to the Cayman Islands , the meeting attracted delegates from Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia and Surinam.

It was the first time that the ILO, founded in 1919, held its five-day day intensive training course in the Caribbean, Ms Morris noted.

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