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WE are all fed up with delays in the judicial system. And as any lawyer who actively practises can tell you, the first thing someone will say upon finding out that you are a lawyer is that the judicial system is pitifully inefficient and cumbersome. The lawyer will usually admit this, but shift the blame onto the other actors in this delicate dance of delays.
In order to understand why they do this, you would have to understand the persona that is this lawyer. Lawyers tend to wear their uniform more like a badge of identity as opposed to a casualty of their profession. It is like their personality starts at the black coat and ends at the tip of their black tie. Even their cars and motorcycles feel the need to exclaim who is so eloquently riding them day in and day out.
As such, there is a great deal of pride, perhaps misplaced to some extent, in dealing with people as a representative of the said community and that of the system that produced them. They consider the problems of the judiciary as those which are essentially of someone else’s making, and that they are at the vanguard of the struggle to course correct.
The problem lies in the interests and capacities of the various players that drive the judicial set-up.
People would perhaps be gullible enough to defer to such a sentiment had they not seen this dance before. Was not the lawyers’ movement all about change in the system as opposed to merely the restoration of a chief justice many in the bar disliked in any case? Was not the National Judicial Policy supposed to be an attempt to better a system which typically afforded justice not to the claimants, but the children of the children of such claimants? Have chief justices not acknowledged incessantly the need for changes to better the delivery of justice without any real and substantive changes actually taking place? The answer to all these questions is yes, and the sum of all these zeros is still a zero.