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Tanzania: Judiciary to Automate Operations, Says Chief Justice
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
5 July 2008
Posted to the web 7 July 2008
Patty Magubira, Mwanza
Mwanza
The judiciary will automate some of its operations to expedited court proceedings and deliver justice with minimal hindrances by using the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani said yesterday.
The judiciary was already collaborating with development partners to automate court proceedings, he said shortly before launching the country's second sub-registry for the Commercial Court Division of the High Court of Tanzania in Mwanza.
The first similar sub-registry was opened in August 2004 in Arusha Municipality.
Scribbling during court proceedings was time consuming, Mr Ramadhani observed.
He explained that online civil litigation mostly in use in developed countries would expedite hearing of cases and that copy of judgment would in case of appealing be timely available.
"Court proceedings of the Commercial Court Division though already had been automated, its technology ought to be harmonised with that of the entire sector," he said.
Automation of court proceedings will improve efficiency of the sector by 75 per cent, according to experts.
With the online civil litigation, courts would be connected with others in US, Britain, Germany, Japan and Australia, among others, to also enable witnesses to testify from those ends.
Advocates from another court could still examine the witnesses, according the experts.
Commenting on complaints that the Commercial Court Division was being favoured, Mr Ramadhani said the Judiciary sector was intending to see cases at all its divisions expedited and that a number of reforms were planned.
He said high costs was imposed on filing a case at the Commercial Court Division mainly because the division was reserved for resolving special conflicts involving members of the business community.
Resident Magistrate Courts would continue handling commercial conflicts whose services could not be fast tracked, Mr Ramadhani said, citing fast tracked health services obtained at various referral hospitals, including Weil Bugando Medical Centre.
The regional chairman of Lawyers Association here, Paulin Rugayimkamu, earlier commended the Judiciary for bringing its services close to people.
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He, however, complained that the cost of filing cases at the Commercial Court Division was still high.
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