The move, according to Judicial Spokesperson, Harrison Mutabazi aims at providing good services, resources and logistics management as well as easy process of infrastructure development in the courts.
Twenty-four courts remained untouched while 36 have been merged and became 17 and their names were changed.
Mutabazi said that the development will ease service delivery .
“As they have been merged, there is no need to relocate employees from one court to another, their services will be effective. They will discuss legal affairs and share ideas than they used to,” he explained.
Most Primary Courts have had two judges and two court clerks. Those from the urban used to have more than two judges because of the many cases.
He said that the reforms will lead to good management of human resources and logistics.
“Some courts had old infrastructures like roofs which were leaking. Instead of having many courts operating in old places and having insufficient materials, it is better to merge them and operate in a good environment,” he added.
He said that as people are accessing judicial services online, it was necessary to merge the courts.
According to Mutabazi, no staff will be rendered jobless as they will continue to work in newly established courts.
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