The case backlog committee has today met with the Justice and constitutional Affairs Minister Kahinda Otaffire to take the Ministry’s views on how best to tackle case backlog in the judiciary.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0eleven member committee chaired\u00a0by Court of Appeal Judge Richard Buteera was appointed by Chief Justice Bart Katureebe.<\/p>\n
They are to report back to him\u00a0within two months with a report detailing\u00a0strategies on how to reduce on\u00a0the over 114,101 case backlog within the\u00a0judicial system.<\/p>\n
Some of these cases date as far back as ten years.<\/p>\n
However as the committee met with Ministry of Justice Officials, the Attorney General William Byaruhanga has expressed concerns about having trouble to identify\u00a0 and appoint qualified candidates to fill positions of judicial officers at the bench.<\/p>\n
The inadequate numbers of judges and magistrates has also been identified as one of the causes of case backlog.<\/p>\n
On Monday\u00a0this week the committee first\u00a0met with\u00a0the DPP Mike\u00a0Chibita who stressed that that\u00a0inadequate funding\u00a0to facilitate witnesses leads to a delay in case disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The case backlog committee has today met with the Justice and constitutional Affairs Minister Kahinda Otaffire to take the Ministry’s views on how best to tackle case backlog in the judiciary. The\u00a0eleven member committee chaired\u00a0by Court of Appeal Judge Richard Buteera was appointed by Chief Justice Bart Katureebe. They are to report back to him\u00a0within two months with a report detailing\u00a0strategies on how to reduce on\u00a0the over 114,101 case backlog within the\u00a0judicial system. Some of these cases date as far back as ten years. However as the committee met with Ministry of Justice Officials, the Attorney General William Byaruhanga has expressed concerns about having trouble to identify\u00a0 and appoint qualified candidates to fill positions of judicial officers at the bench. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}