The law courts will be getting a €450,000 upgrade in its information technology (IT) infrastructure with the intention of reinvigorating and modernising the system.
The upgrades will see 122 kilometres of new cables laid around the law courts and 2,500 new network ports installed. The upgrades are expected to be finished by June this year, and 12,000 man-hours of work have already been put into the project.
Speaking at a press conference organised at the law courts, Chief Justice Joseph Azzopardi said that the digital system in place is of great help to lawyers and judges and that such further technological innovation will only serve to help give service to more people in a reasonable time frame.
Chief Justice Azzopardi said that justice should be handed out in as soon a time as possible and that, while there were various factors to blame for delays in cases, such technological innovation can only have positive impacts on this.
Justice Minister Owen Bonnici explained the nature of the upgrades and said that by this coming June, every building will have a proper IT structure which can be built upon.
Without this structure one cannot build further IT services to continue to improve, Bonnici said. He added that the new system was not necessarily being implemented to address current problems but was, for the first time, looking towards the future.
The minister also said that the current justice services site is also being improved and reiterated what Chief Justice Azzopardi said; that justice not done in time is an injustice.
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