Website: http://www.moj.gov.jm

Mission Statement

In partnership with all other stakeholders

    * Ensure that Jamaica is a just and law-abiding society with an accessible, efficient and fair system of justice for all

    * Promote respect for rights and freedoms, the Law and the Constitution and an awareness of individual responsibilities and civil obligations.

Profile

The Ministry of Justice has overall responsibility of Government to deliver justice by:

    * protecting the constitutional rights of citizens

    * maintaining the independence of the judicial system

    * reinforcing confidence in the legal institutions

    * carrying out law reform to effect greater social justice

    * providing means of redress when people are abused by organs of the state

    * carrying our legal directives imposed by the courts for the protection of society