By JOE GURINA
THE judiciary system in the country still faces the challenges of delivering decisions on cases in a timely manner, says Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika.
Sir Gibbs said one of the setbacks to fast track cases is that Judges consume more time in doing legal research on cases that they take up.
“More time is taken-up by Judges in doing legal research on cases. We don’t engage lawyers or our associates to do research because our associates are not trained lawyers,’’ Sir Gibbs told a recent press conference.
Chief Justice Sir Gibbs said there are arguments by Judges that they needed more time to do legal research on their cases and “that is true, we need more time to make-do legal research on cases.’’
He said the challenges of not completing cases on time have been around since the days of the country’s first Chief Justice late Sir Buri Kidu.
However, the Chief Justice said that the challenges in the earlier days were not that much compared to the current times the judiciary service is experiencing.
“In those earlier days, the work load was not as much as what we have today. Work load has increased, the number of Judges have decreased , as a result, Judges attend to national and supreme-court cases and cases are not delivered quickly on time,’’ he said.
He said the judiciary service has introduced the Information Technology (IT) system last year to complement the judges with their duties.
Sir Gibbs said training was a major aspect in the use of IT to improve Judges who were not computer literate.