The Judicial Service has launched this year’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with a call on litigants and court users to use ADR to end cases earlier instead of spending much time in court.
The ADR was established in 2006 after a task force, set up to investigate why some cases spend several years in court without resolution, recommended it.
The launch was held at the Amasaman District court on Monday March 13.
Speaking at the launch, the president of the Judicial Service Staff Association and National Coordinator of the ADR, Alex Nartey, urged the public to embrace Alternative Dispute Resolution in order to cut down on delays with many court cases.
On her part, Her Ladyship Justice Irene Charity Larbi, a justice of the Appeals Court and judge-in-charge of ADR, said the ADR had chalked some successes including the extension of the programme to 67 District and Circuit courts across the nation, with at least three mediators assigned to each court, while a total of 295 mediators trained and assigned to these courts.
She added that a total of 1373 cases were mediated in 2016, out of which 605 (44%) were settled.
ADR had been funded largely by donor partners including the UNDP, GoG, GTZ, and MiDA.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
