30 Jul 2019, 9:00 AM
The criminal court has a backlog of 1,910 cases, including a dozen filed a decade ago, according to a report shared with parliament by the Judicial Service Commission.
Citing the report at Tuesday’s sitting, Speaker Mohamed Nasheed noted that there were 126 cases that started five years ago and 181 cases that were filed after the new criminal procedures law came into force in July 2017.
There are only nine judges on the trial court’s bench.
The report includes details about the court’s budget, qualification of judges, a classification of cases and the number of cases on each judge’s docket, Nasheed said.
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