EFFORTS are being made to bring on stream three more judges in the June session of the Demerara Criminal Assizes, according to reports.

This, it is said will provide five courts sitting at the Assizes in the month of July- two of the judges are likely to come from the Court of Appeal. They are expected to cut the backlog of some 241 cases that were listed at the beginning of the June session, where only three judges are assigned, a high ranking court official disclosed to the Guyana Chronicle.
Plans for strengthening the jury system are already in force as summonses are being sent out for new jurors to serve in the additional courts.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court Police Outpost which is understaffed has already made requests for more ranks.
And it was pointed out also that another judge who was in a different County may join those in Georgetown.

(By George Barclay)