The Judicial Service led by the Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah has launched a Performance Review Programme aimed at putting judges and magistrates on their toes to deliver on their mandate to the people.
The programme would ensure that the judiciary regularly monitors and evaluates judges and magistrates in order to detect any shortcomings that adversely affect their ability to deliver.
Launching the programme in Accra, the Chief Justice, said the programme would also weed out those who after a series of training failed to meet the professional standards and had become “non trainable,”
According to the CJ, the programme is an “internal quality assurance arrangement” but it would not interfere in the work of judges and magistrates.
“The Performance Review Programme would discourage abuse of processes, reviews, and eventually delays. The fact that a judge’s conduct would be reviewed should spur or motivate judges and magistrates to discharge their duties without fear or favour, affection or ill will.
“A confident judge does not panic no matter the perceived influence, ” the Chief Justice noted.
*No opportunist commenst*
Justice Anin Yeboah added that the programme would not give room for biased and opportunist comments by court users.
While launching the programme, the CJ urged the judges and magistrates not to use “offensive language” in their judgements and appealed to lawyers and court users to fill the judges and magistrates Performance Review Forms “with condor or devoid of prejudice”,
-By Starrfm|Ghana
0 Comments