Chief Justice Sophia Akufo has disclosed that the judiciary will roll out online filing of court cases in March 2018 to improve justice delivery and eliminate human face interactions that hitherto upset the efforts of the Judiciary.
She highlighted the importance of “dynamism in the pursuit of justice†and the need to be “innovativeâ€.
According to Chief Justice Sophia Akufo, steps must be taken to ensure productivity in the judiciary and “part of doing that is ensuring that we effectively eliminate the amount of face-to-face interventions other than inside the court. So mechanisms have already been put in place and are being extended to ensure that as much as possible dealings between litigants and officials of the courts particularly at the registry and at the clerical level is limited to only what is necessary.
“So, from the beginning of next month we will be rolling out the online filing system,†she said in a speech at the 2018 Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law Conference in Accra on Thursday, February 15 2018
Justice Sophia Akufo continued that, the judiciary needs to be adequately funded to carry out its core mandate of quality justice delivery. She emphasized that the judiciary cannot be reduced to appendage when it comes to allocation of funds to state institutions.
She further charged officers of the judicial service and police to help expedite trial of court cases to repose citizens confidence in the judiciary.
According to her, the practice where cases take longer periods in court only erodes the citizenry's confidence which contributes to mob violence and other vices.
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