Hiring more judges will not decrease the number of delayed cases with courts across the Kingdom, said Minister of Justice Muhammad Al-Eisa, Tuesday. Hiring one judge is as much expensive as hiring four consultants who would be able to eradicate the root causes of the case even before it exists, the minister said during the 3rd meeting of the development strategic plan of the Ministry of Justice in Riyadh. Employment of more judges will not simply solve the problem of delayed cases, he said. Al-Eisa cited the lack of public legal awareness, absence of court verdicts for legal fees, centrality of legal presentation to law offices, and the rise of false cases as the reasons for more cases sitting on court tables unattended. The new judicial strategic plan developed by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) will help decrease the number of cases the Kingdom's courts have to review, he said. “It has been confirmed that the countries with developed judicial systems have decreased their court cases by 90 percent, and in some Arab countries by 70 percent. It is a staggering percentage, but it is true,” he said. The strategic plan of the development of the Saudi judicial system is believed to be well-researchedw as KFUPM has capitalized on the expertise of national and foreign authorities in the judiciary system and other related fields. The President of KFUPM, Khaled Al-Sultan, said the university will within a month finalize the procedures guaranteeing a better and faster execution of the strategic plan of the Ministry of Justice for faster processing of cases.
