{"id":37108,"date":"2018-03-13T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-justice-system-wants-to-apply-mediation-in\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:43:20","slug":"rwanda-justice-system-wants-to-apply-mediation-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-justice-system-wants-to-apply-mediation-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda justice system wants to apply mediation in commercial cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugege was speaking yesterday in Kigali while launching the five-day capacity building training among commercial courts judges, lawyers and legal representatives from financial institutions, banks and Rwanda Revenue Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The training aims at equipping them with mediation knowledge and how it can be used in addressing commercial conflicts without necessarily going to courts of law.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe want all problems solved amicably and mediated, because, we have observed that this system helps them to feel contented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in courts, both parties spend long periods and everyone on their side desire to win the case which he said is impossible.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhen they are going in courts, one must win the case and another one lose, most of the time losers do not agree with ruling decisions, as they also desire to win and end up with lasting conflicts. We want to reduce such cases and solve many problems amicably,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He said that cases solved through mediation are still few.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThey are not more than 5%, but we wish them raised to 60%. For example in Trinidad and Tobago, a country that uses the system, in pilot phase of the system, 65% of the cases in first year were tried amicably,\u201d he explained.  <\/p>\n<p>He said that in other countries that use the same system, 90% of cases are solved amicably and Rwanda wishes to apply same approach. <\/p>\n<p>The President of Commercial High Court, Emmanuel Kamere said that the system is a good way to go as people contribute in solving their problems will help end backlogs in the justice system.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24381 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_w_urukiko_rw_ikirenga_prof_sam_rugege-3-409cf.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Justice, Prof. Sam Rugege\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice, Prof. Sam Rugege has said that justice sector in Rwanda seeks to have  60% of commercial conflicts handled through mediation system as it provides timely and fair decisions that content both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37108"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37108"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}