The Attorney General read aloud portions of a recent letter received from the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. The head of the court system recommended that the law which permits for a Judge-alone trial be made permanent, eliminating the sunset clause which appeared in the law at first. The Chief Justice applauded Antigua and Barbuda for being the first in the O.E.C.S. jurisdiction to have adopted the law, causing the jurisdiction to join Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago in the region. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States also have Judge-alone trials by legislation. The Cabinet decided that it will cause the amendment to the law to make that kind of trial a permanent feature of the Antigua and Barbuda law.