Arrangement among Judges and Executive brings hope for restoration of judicial functioning :: Mmegi Online

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed its hope recently that an arrangement reached between four Judges of the High Court and Botswana President Ian Khama along with Chief Justice Dibotelo ,would serve to restore the effective functioning of the High Court and its critical role in the administration of justice.

The settlement resulted in Justices Key Dingake, Modiri Letsididi, Mercy Garekwe and Ranier Busang withdrawing a petition and letter they had written complaining about what they considered to be a range of deficiencies in the justice system, as well as a failure of leadership in judicial administration.

The President and Executive, for its part, discontinued pursuing allegations of misconduct and bringing the name of the Judiciary into disrepute against the Judges and disestablished the impeachment tribunal that had been set up to try them.

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