A Rule of Law Specialist on the USAID Justice Sector Support Activity (JSSA), Enoch Jengre has emphasized the need for effective utilization of the Case Tracking System (CTS) by Justice Sector Institutions to enhance justice delivery. Mr. Jengre said the CTS, which is technologically driven helps to coordinate activities involved in prosecuting cases faster and […]
A Rule of Law Specialist, Enoch Jengre has entreated the general public to accept to use Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism to lessen the burden of cases on the courts. He said the law courts are already being weighed down by cases that could rather be resolved through the various avenues of ADR including mediation. Speaking on […]
Eight media personalities have been unveiled as Case Tracking System ambassadors to support the sensitization on justice delivery. The CTS is software that collects, collates, and harmonizes data from the time a suspect is arrested to the time judgment is delivered. CTS is part of a USAID Justice Sector Support program. The ambassadors were selected […]
Supreme Court judge Justice Emmanuel Yoni Kulendi has bemoaned the scantiness of lawyers practicing in Ghana. Quoting a recent survey, the justice said only 3,213 lawyers are practicing in a population of 30.8million. The Supreme Court justice was speaking at the unveiling of Case Tracking System ambassadors in Accra on Thursday, October,21,2021. “Only 3,213 […]
A rule of law specialist with the Legal Resource Center, Enock Jengre, is optimistic, the electronic Case Tracking System will reduce interference in justice delivery. The CTS is software that collects, collates, and harmonizes data from the time a suspect is arrested to the time judgment is delivered. All piloting police stations are expected to […]
Ghana’s Chief Justice Anin Yeboah has called for the effective implementation of the Case Tracking System (CTS) activity nationwide. He said stakeholders must ensure that the CTS activity was firmly rooted to enable efficiency and effectiveness in the criminal justice system, while promoting transparency and accountability at every stage of the process. “As we seek […]
Supreme Court judge Justice Emmanuel Yoni Kulendi has suggested that actors in the justice delivery system should be made to experience prison as part of their training. He said the experience will most likely change the dispositions of these justice system players in the cause of discharging their duties towards people who come into […]
Supreme Court Judge, Yonny Kulendi, says the difficulty in justice delivery in the country can be reduced when agents including judges, magistrates and police experience life in Ghana’s prisons. According to him, this will help to shape the way they contribute to administering justice and also appreciate it. Justice Kulendi made the remarks at a sensitisation […]
The implementing partners of the USAID Ghana Justice Sector Support (JSS) activity have held discussions with the management of the Ghana News Agency for collaboration towards making justice more accessible to the vulnerable. The partners – the Legal Resource Centre, Ghana Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Crime Check Foundation – want the GNA to […]
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has appealed to implementing partners in the USAID-funded Justice Sector Support Activity Project (JSSP) to improve internet connectivity. According to him, the electronic Case Tracking System (CTS), a project under the JSSA, can only be efficient when it is easily accessed online. “A major handicap […]