Dialogue on ensuring quality justice set for Wednesday

Over 200 delegates are expected to attend three-day African Judicial Dialogue to be held in Arusha from 4-6 November, 2015 to discuss ways of ensuring quality justice for all African across the continent.

The dialogue, which will bring together African Chief Justices, Presidents of Supreme Courts and Constitutional Courts, academia and national judiciaries among others, is jointly organized by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Union, according to a press release issued by the African Court.

The theme of the biennial Dialogue is ‘’Connecting National and International Justice’’ and is a follow up to the first edition held in November 2013 in Arusha.

“The Continental Judicial Dialogue offers an opportune occasion for productive knowledge-sharing with the goal of establishing and enhancing linkages between the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, on the one hand, and the Regional and the National Courts, on the other hand,’’ said the President of the African Court, Justice Augustino Ramadhani.

He added that the three-day Dialogue would also help to enhance judicial administration and ensure quality justice for Africans across the continent.

The participants will discuss, among other things, the on-going continental judicial reforms, trends on human rights jurisprudence, continuing judicial education and management of judicial institutions, quality management systems of courts and sharing of experiences from other continents.

The first dialogue discussed the African human rights system in general and the relationship between the African Court and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in particular.

The contentious and advisory jurisdictions of these two institutions were discussed as well as the human rights jurisprudence of the regional courts.

The dialogue also discussed the various approaches to domestication of international human rights instruments and their application by national courts as well as the enforcement of the decisions of continental and regional courts by national institutions.