JAMAICA’S chief justice, Lensley Wolfe, has said that a new book on legal ethics in the Caribbean, which was launched in Kingston last week, is clear evidence of the region’s ability to produce its own legal material and control its own legal development.

According to Wolfe, the book — The Legal Profession in the English-Speaking Caribbean — would go a far way to assist in the development of local jurisprudence.

Copies of the book, written by Karen Nunez Tesheira, course director and senior lecturer at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad, were presented to Wolfe and the librarians of the Supreme Court and the Norman Manley Law School.

Hilary Phillips QC, president of the Jamaica Bar Association, congratulated Tesheira on producing the book, which she described as a well-researched and invaluable compendium of the rules and ethics governing attorneys across the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Principal of the Norman Manley Law School, Keith Sobian, said the book was written in a very readable style and would be of great value to law students, as well as members of the public interested in or concerned about the increasing number of disciplinary matters involving attorneys.