{"id":37929,"date":"2018-07-30T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/court-of-appeal-to-reduce-case-backlog\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:21:17","slug":"court-of-appeal-to-reduce-case-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/court-of-appeal-to-reduce-case-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal to reduce case backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugege was speaking last week while launching a three-day retreat that brought together the heads of Supreme Court, High Court and Court of Appeal in Bugesera District.<\/p>\n<p>The retreat was aimed at discussing ways of harnessing collaboration between courts, and discussing impact of reforms that have recently been introduced in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>He said that backlog tops challenges in the sector, a reason they set up Court of Appeal which would support the existing judiciary system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBacklog, at some point are caused by judges who do not thoroughly investigate the cases, recurrent excuses leading to hearing adjournment and poor collaboration with court clerks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that among many reforms in the sector, a Court of Appeal was established to help reduce the backlog in Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>At the retreat, Judge Angeline Rutazana expressed that the establishment of Court of Appeal and review of the law will help them try many cases in short period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law permits one Court of Appeal judge to hear a case from start to end, so, we are optimistic that this move will help trying many cases in a short period,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Information from the Judiciary indicates that in 2017, backlog cases in the Supreme Court were 77 per cent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26405 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/prof_sam_rugege-42085.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Justice, Prof. Sam Rugege speaks at the retreat\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26404 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abandi_bacamanza-e17eb.jpg\" alt=\"Judges in a three-day retreat last week\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice, Prof. Sam Rugege has requested judges to always expeditiously handle court cases to avoid the burden of backlog which stifles the delivery of justice once delays are experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37929","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\/37929","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37929"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37929"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}