Mr Enock Jengre, a Rule of Law Specialist at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), has called for the enactment of a legislation to mandate lawyers in Ghana to offer free legal services to vulnerable citizens on yearly basis. He said even though some lawyers offered free legal services to their clients, they were not bound […]
Mr Enock Jengre, Rule of Law Specialist at Legal Resources Centre (LRC), has called on stakeholders in the judicial sector to uphold the sector’s integrity and accountability to maintain public confidence in the justice system. He said “When justice is inaccessible, the result is injustice, injustice leads to bitterness, anger, revolt and ultimately political and […]
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 […]
High cost of initiating or defending suits, limited and under-resourced justice institutions, the complexity of judicial processes, disempowerment, perverse delays in administering of justice caused by frequent adjournments, missing case dockets, slow processing of documentation due to high caseloads, high perception of corruption leading to minimal trust by the public in the Ghanaian courts, high […]
Citizen Monitoring Groups in the Volta Region have been strengthened to make use of the Case Tracking System (CTS) in ensuring criminal justice delivery. Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a nonprofit, partnered with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, and Crime Check Foundation to provide a trainer of trainers’ workshop for monitoring groups from the six districts […]
A day’s training workshop has been organized for Citizen Monitoring Groups (CMGs) in the Volta region, on Ghana’s electronic Case Tracking System. The training which took place in Ho, the Regional capital, was organized by the Legal Resources Centre, a non-governmental organization, as part of the ‘USAID Justice Sector Support Activity.’ According to Enock […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has trained members of a Citizen Monitoring Group (CMG) in the Upper East Region to monitor the Integrated Criminal Justice Case Tracking System and support stakeholders in the justice delivery system. The Case Tracking System (CTS) project is to enable key actors in the justice delivery system to electronically access […]
High cost of initiating or defending suits, limited and under-resourced justice institutions, the complexity of judicial processes, disempowerment, perverse delays in administering of justice caused by frequent adjournments, missing case dockets, slow processing of documentation due to high caseloads, high perception of corruption leading to minimal trust by the public in the Ghanaian courts, high […]
Legal Resources Centre (LRC), non-profit legal advocacy organisation based in Accra, has trained six Citizen Monitoring Group (CMG) members from six selected districts in the Northern Region. The one day training workshop held in Tamale on Wednesday was in response to the 2018 Integrated Criminal Justice Case-Tracking System (CTS) project launched by the government to […]
The implementing partners of the USAID funded Justice Sector Support Activity will soon roll out a robust media education and sensitisation programme to empower Ghanaians to enable them to know the existence of the Case Tracking System (CTS) and its importance to justice delivery in Ghana. In an interview with GBC, the Rule of Law […]