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    "id": 590182,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, our prisons and jails are full of people who have been jailed because of small claims cases. The normal capacity of our prisons and jails has been over-stretched. That is because of the presence of people who are jailed for small claims cases. They could have solved those problems in a short time and then go back home after understanding each other. However, because of lack of small claims court, everybody takes their case to the high court or the magistrates’ court. Therefore, people are filling our prisons just because of small claims. Hon. Speaker, I want to agree with the hon. Member who has said that the qualifications given for the adjudicator to administer those courts are very high in terms of experience - five years are too many. The courts should consider that when they are recruiting the adjudicators, they must have some basic understanding of the law of the land. Most of those small claims are within the society and the locality. Because of that, the adjudicator must have some knowledge or understanding of the locality. I do not want to encourage tribalism, but an adjudicator of the court must have familiarization of the locality in order to administer justice the right way. With regard to language, as Hon. (Ms.) Wahome has said, sign language is very important. There are people in this country who are not getting justice because of language. If we could get people who are going to interpret the cases in those courts, then the deaf and the dumb can get justice. There will be somebody to interpret the spoken language into sign language for them to access justice. That would be very encouraging. Using the language of the locality is very encouraging because some people lose their cases because they do not understand the legal language. When we use the local language, that particular person can respond and even argue with an advocate because he understands the language that is used in the court. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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