Panamas judicial system 60 years out of date

THE  SNAIL like pace  and low productivity of Panama’s judicial system is because it is operating under outdated  processes introduced 60 years ago says the president of the Supreme Court, Jose Ayu Prado

“We are maintaining a system and a ritual for handling processes from 60 years ago, when the number of lawyers was not the same and the litigiousness of the population was not the same,” he said.

At the same time, Ayu Prado estimated that humanity can not give the same result under the same infrastructure.

In his opinion,  views based on statistics may not give the best results in  to analyzing  a problem and we need to study it as a whole.

He also indicated that thesituation is discussed constantly and carefully by the judges in the plenary of the corporation maximum justice.

On  Wednesday La Prensa carried a story on the judiciary  with  statistics showing  that until October this year, the judges of the Court had resolved only 50% of the processes that entered their offices.

Until then, the nine judges of the Court had handled 2,653 records, of which 594,000 thousand were left over from  2013.

For Ayu Prado, the concern expressed by La Prensa, over  the conduct of judicial proceedings in the Palacio Gil Ponce, is legitimate, however, to analyze only the figures is insufficient.

Civil society organizations, such as Citizens Alliance for Justice, which comprises more than twenty groups have warned of the need for changes in the administration of justice to eliminate the backlog.

Panama’s judicial system 60 years out of date
THE SNAIL like pace and low productivity of Panama’s judicial system is because it is operating under outdated processes introduced 60 years ago says the president of the Supreme Court, Jose Ayu Prado
“We are maintaining a system and a ritual for handling processes from 60 years ago, when the number of lawyers was not the same and the litigiousness of the population was not the same,” he said.

At the same time, Ayu Prado estimated that humanity can not give the same result under the same infrastructure.
In his opinion, views based on statistics may not give the best results in to analyzing a problem and we need to study it as a whole.
He also indicated that thesituation is discussed constantly and carefully by the judges in the plenary of the corporation maximum justice.
On Wednesday La Prensa carried a story on the judiciary with statistics showing that until October this year, the judges of the Court had resolved only 50% of the processes that entered their offices.
Until then, the nine judges of the Court had handled 2,653 records, of which 594,000 thousand were left over from 2013.
For Ayu Prado, the concern expressed by La Prensa, over the conduct of judicial proceedings in the Palacio Gil Ponce, is legitimate, however, to analyze only the figures is insufficient.
Civil society organizations, such as Citizens Alliance for Justice, which comprises more than twenty groups have warned of the need for changes in the administration of justice to eliminate the backlog.