Kent Pantry, former Director of Public Prosecutions will address scores of Jamaicans from the legal, academic, business and civil community at the Launch of Future Services International on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 5pm at the Courtleigh Hotel, New Kingston.
Mr. Pantry who is one of Jamaica's respected members of the legal fraternity over the last thirty years will speak on the issue of crime and violence, the justice system, measures to fight crime and strengthening prosecuting capabilities, capital punishment and sentencing.
The former DPP was invited to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in July 1978 and has held the positions of Crown Counsel, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions and was appointed Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in May 1991
Seven years later, on the 9th November 1998 he was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions where he served in that capacity until recently when he retired in February 2008.
Mr. Pantry has been an Associate Tutor in the Law of Evidence at the Norman Manley Law School for over twenty (20) years and was recently appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology.
Future Services International Ltd., is Jamaica's first legal funding and litigant support company which aims to finance justice by funding legitimate and meaningful civil lawsuits to enable legally aggrieved individuals to seek remedy under the Law. The launch of Future Services International represents a bold step in entrepreneurship and demonstrates renewed confidence in the dispensation of justice in Jamaica. Even more exciting for Jamaicans is that like typical legal funding companies in North America, Future Services International Ltd will assist in financing your lawsuit but will only be compensated if the action is successful.