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    "id": 588864,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "On administration, it is common knowledge that in our law courts, files disappear and they are never found again. It becomes very difficult to trace them. With the enactment of this law, we shall have an administrator who will be accountable for all the courts records. This includes the filing in the registry and their availability. It will be easy to trace a file so that once a case comes up for hearing, the file will be ready and placed before the magistrate. If at all the file is not there, there is a person who will be accountable and, therefore, chargeable for not availing the same. Presently, in some of our Magistrates Courts, a file can completely disappear until a skeleton or a duplicate file is ordered to be prepared by the magistrate. This is because somebody somewhere within or outside the premises tried to defeat justice. With the administration in place, I find that very applicable. It is good that the files in the registry are under somebody who will be answerable. I would even wish that we have a registry that is computerised. These days, you find files with cobwebs in the registry and you take a lot of time to find them. Now that we have gone digital, we can also computerise those registries and have files put in soft copies. After a case, those files should be updated and turned into soft copy. This is because once they are in a soft copy and saved in the database, even if the physical file is misplaced or somebody works to defeat justice by throwing it away, that information can always be retrieved. Therefore, the administrator will be accountable to whatever happens in that registry. Finally, I would also like to allude to the fact that given that we are going to get staff employed as administrators, have more courts in our counties and more magistrates employed to do the tasks which will come from the judges, the financial aspect cannot be ignored. We need to budget for these new dimensions. At the end of the day, we will need funds. As the Bill progresses to enactment, I think amendments will be brought forth in order to improve the Bill further. I stand to support."
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