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 […]
With the overwhelming numbers of inmates in Ghana’s prisons, the Attorney General, Godfred Dame, has said the government is working on enacting a non-custodial sentencing law. Community sentence or alternative sentencing or non-custodial sentence allows a court to punish an offender in different ways other than serving a jail term. The absence of a non-custodial sentencing […]
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 […]
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Odame has commended the US government for implementing the Justice Sector Support Project (JSSP) to enhance efficient justice delivery in the country. Speaking at a meeting with the implementing partners of the JSSP, the Attorney General however appealed to the implementation team to address the challenge of […]
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 […]