The only vice of the Virgin Islands' statute, in an uncontested case like this, is that it makes unnecessary a choice between bigamy and perjury.
In an uncontested case, a Superior Court judge in Trenton ordered on Sept. 12 that the estate and some $500,000 in cash was the property of the Filipino people.
If you and your spouse agree to all terms of the divorce but don't meet the requirements for a summary dissolution, you can file an uncontested case.
Single magistrates should be allowed to sit outside courts, probably in community centres, to dispense justice in low-level, uncontested cases, the document will also suggest.
Though it would have been valuable to see Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taaki challenged on their opinions, Adam Bhala Lough, the director, allows the men to make uncontested cases for their extremist and sometimes militant stances.
It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations to deal with low-level uncontested cases within days or even hours of arrest.
John Fassenfelt, chairman of the Magistrates Associationn, welcomed the anticipated changes, but warned: "While most of our members will be pleased to see a role for single justices to deal with low-level uncontested cases, we are concerned about... judicial independence and that such powers for this role should be for the judiciary only and not delegated to justices' clerks".
It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations so they can deal with low-level, uncontested cases within days or even hours of a suspect's arrest.
Magistrates will be given a stronger role in community justice, with single magistrates sitting outside of courts, such as in community centres, in order to "dispense rapid and effective justice in low-level, uncontested cases".
John Fassenfelt, chairman of the Magistrates Associationn, said: "While most of our members will be pleased to see a role for single justices to deal with low-level uncontested cases, we are concerned about the venue to safeguard judicial independence and that such powers for this role should be for the judiciary only and not delegated to justices' clerks".
Starlet M. Jones versus Al S. Reynolds was marked as an "Uncontested Matrimonial" case by the court and the records were sealed.
