As the judicial system battles with a caseload in the hundreds, Attorney General Dale Marshall is reporting that some litigants are noticing an improvement in the length of time it is taking for their civil matters to be resolved by the law courts.With just under 2 000 civil cases being filed annually, Marshall gave an update on the judicial system at Wednesday’s Christ Church Speaks meeting, held at the Christ Church Foundation School, where several members of the public complained about issues with the system.Noting that annually just under 2 000 civil cases are filed in the High Court, AG Marshall said that in addition to increasing the number of judges on the bench, the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) administration invested in digitizing the filing system among other initiatives aimed at improving the justice apparatus.“Now one of the earliest things that we did, Prime Minister [Mia Amor Mottley], you would recall, we amended the Constitution to provide that misconduct on the part of a judge could be constituted by delay in delivering a decision for over six months. Now the truth is, no judges have been punished for that.
