Chief Justice Mandisa Maya dropped two annual reports about how the courts are doing, and the justice department says they're gonna use the info to figure out how to make things run better. She became the first woman in that top job and laid out some rough numbers showing regional criminal courts barely kept pace with new cases coming in, while only six superior courts managed to get most of their reserved judgments out within three months.
Complaints against judges jumped hard over the past few years, with 132 filed in the latest period, which has people worried about whether the public trusts the system. Maya said backlogs are hitting family law and business disputes because of pandemic delays and not enough staff. The government and judiciary had meetings about making the courts more independent by letting the Office of the Chief Justice run lower court administration instead of the current setup.
Complaints against judges jumped hard over the past few years, with 132 filed in the latest period, which has people worried about whether the public trusts the system. Maya said backlogs are hitting family law and business disputes because of pandemic delays and not enough staff. The government and judiciary had meetings about making the courts more independent by letting the Office of the Chief Justice run lower court administration instead of the current setup.
