Justice delayed is justice denied

GOING to the courts to seek justice in PNG, has never being easy.
In fact pursuing justice has become a very difficult and long journey for the ordinary people.
I have been going back and forth to the courts over the past years to get justice, but it seems the courts have develop a practice of delayed justice, as the reserved decisions matters are delayed for years, which is contrary to the justice system and its intended purposes.
Time and time again the courts would claim that they (courts) do not have enough judges to deal with the court matters. And that is the current dilemma facing the country.
To increase the number of judges, courts would have to get the approval from the National Government, which is a challenging task for the courts.
The fact is that, the Courts are predominantly spending 95 per cent of their time, dealing with motions and directional hearing matters on daily basis.
Hence, the reserved decision matters are not given the adequate attention they deserve.
Anyone who has had the opportunity to visit the courts can confirm that, with the courts daily listings notices, which I have been starring at for the last donkey years. The public deserves to know whether the courts and the judges, have graciously embraced the chief judge’s 2019 Legal Year Opening Call, to “fast track reserved decision”.
I am well informed that, the list for the backlog of reserved decisions is growing and the
courts have not yet, being able
to fast track the reserved decisions.
With almost half of the 2019 Legal Year has passed already, the courts have not being able to deliver on what the chief judge has asked of them (courts) to do.
Delayed justice is denied justice.

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