Corruption court worsens judicial delays

In the organisation’s 2013 annual report Seretse says “It was during the year under review that the Chief Justice formed what has now become the Corruption Court. This was so as to ease the workload of the magistrates so that corruption cases do not compete with other cases for attention. 

The introduction of this court, however, meant that as a higher court, accused persons should first be committed for trial as required by the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act and this process added to the delay in the disposal of cases,” says Seretse in the DCEC report.