Rule of Law Specialist with the Legal Resources Center, Enoch Jengre, has said a Case Tracking System (CTS) recently launched will improve the justice delivery system of the country.
Mr Jengre said the effective utilisation of the CTS was crucial in creating a better justice delivery system in the subsequent years.
“If it is not utilised, we will go back to square zero but that is not where I think we want to go to because we want to see a future where our justice delivery system, there is confidence in it, where cases that are supposed to be trialed within a reasonable time are trialed where citizens have maximum confidence in our justice delivery system and there is minimal political interference. That is what the CTS makes provision for and if it is effectively utilized," he told Starr News.
He indicated that the Case Tracking System will be efficient in ensuring transparency and eliminating impediments in Ghana's justice delivery system.
"We will have more confidence in our justice delivery system if it is used. It means that once cases get to the court, they will not keep long, if it is used it means that we will not be hearing as much as possible issues of missing dockers because everything is tracked electronically; we are not going to use anything manual we will minimise manual interaction in justice delivery in Ghana," he stated.
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Mr Enoch Jengre said the sensitisation on the CTS will promote its use across the country.
"Public awareness, create sensitisation...we want everyone to ensure that once you are aware you demand that the system be used. We will engage every necessary stakeholder so that they will be aware and they are going to serve as ambassadors. They will go and relay the information to their groups or constituents so that together we can all rally around this particular project because the system has come it’s Ghana government project it is not for us, we are only saying that it is supposed to be utilised," he added.
Rule of Law Specialist with the Legal Resources Center urged the government and Parliament to speed up action on the passage of the Community Service Bill.
The passage of the Community Service Bill which was drafted since 2018, according to him, has been long overdue and must be pushed through under the 8th Parliament.