NAMIBIA'S High Court is struggling to keep pace with the number of criminal cases being sent to it for trial, chief justice Peter Shivute warned during the Office of the Judiciary's official opening of the new year at the Supreme Court in Windhoek yesterday.
Statistics recording the number of criminal cases being finalised in the High Court and the number of new criminal cases registered in that court "demonstrate that there is a crisis looming on the horizon as the High Court's volume of work continues to grow at an alarming rate," the chief justice said.
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