A Rule of Law Specialist with the Legal Resources Centre, Enock Jengre has urged government to resource the Legal Aid Commission to enhance justice delivery through the implementation of Ghana’s Case Tracking System (CTS). According to him, inadequate budgetary allocation, logistics and lawyers to enable the Commission operate effectively and efficiently in the delivery of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]