The adoption of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) application with the aid of using the Judiciary has slashed the weight at the courts in Ghana with the aid of using 29,558 instances; His Lordship Justice Anin Yeboah-Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana has announced.
He has indicated that however for its advent and implementation, the weight of instances "could had been borne with the aid of using the courts below greater demanding conditions".
Prior to the adoption of ADR, the Chief Justice said "it have become clean round 2001 that the call for for justice with the aid of using the citizenry had emerge as so large that the backlog of instances withinside the courts had rendered the fee at which instances had been decided with the aid of using Judges and Magistrates very sluggish thereby growing backlog of instances in courts"
The above disclosure turned into made on the release of ADR week application held in Kumasi on Monday twenty fifth July 2022.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Justice underlined that the relevance of ADR and needs that control of the Judicial Service awareness interest on ADR and useful resource the ADR Directorate to do greater in an effort to make the courtroom docket device greater efficient, consumer pleasant and make get admission to to justice easy.
"Almost all our judges and Magistrates had been educated in ADR and are all acquainted with the essential concepts that underpin the usage of ADR", he stated.
To the overall public he admonished that "ADR has emerge as a center thing of Ghana's adjudication device. What this indicates is that, a case in courtroom docket in Ghana nowadays may be sooner or later decided both thru ADR or litigation. Therefore while a choose refers a case to ADR events withinside the rely need to now no longer experience slighted."
"As such, I propose ADR to everybody in suitable instances. I achieve this due to the fact advantages in the usage of ADR a long way outweigh that if litigation", Chief Justice added.
The subject for the occasion turned into "Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): A Tool for Peace and Stability".
Alternative Dispute Resolution turned into instituted withinside the 12 months 2005 as an intervention to ease the stress at the ordinary Court device and to create a platform that might provide disputants the possibility to play a key position in resolving their disputes.
Per the deal with of Her Ladyship Justice Irene-Charity Larbi, Justice of the Court of Appeal and Judge-in-rate of ADR, every week in each prison 12 months time period is about apart to sensitize the overall public in an effort to sell and entrench this intervention.
She used the event to spotlight important sports which might be accomplished throughout each ADR week.
They are; The use of ADR (mediation) to remedy instances and the introduction of public awareness.