The one-year implementation of the campaign to promote and accelerate case resolution in courts, as well as the campaign to monitor and address irregularities in the judicial system, has achieved remarkable results. However, certain challenges, such as the shortage of judicial officials, have been raised.
On January 9 last year, the Ministry of Justice launched two campaigns: the Campaign to Promote and Accelerate Case Resolution in Courts and the Campaign to Inspect and Address Irregularities in the Courts. These campaigns aim to strengthen and improve justice services and the overall quality of the judicial system.
Speaking at a press conference at the Ministry of Justice yesterday, Chin Malin, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, highlighted three key results from the campaigns. These include a change in the behaviour of judicial officials, who are now working faster, more promptly, with greater responsibility and efficiency; a shift in the mindset and trust of the public, with citizens now praising the courts and expressing gratitude, which is rare; and a significant decrease in the number of complaints, which was much higher in the past but is now gradually declining.
“Although the one-year implementation of these two campaigns has yielded positive results, some challenges have arisen, such as human resource issues, including the insufficient number of officials like judges and clerks, which do not align with the growing number of cases that occur daily,” Malin said. “This causes recurring bottlenecks. Based on the results of this campaign, we will implement additional measures to ensure that we address the issue of case backlogs in some courts.”
He added that the Ministry has outlined directions to continue implementing the two campaigns, drawing lessons from the past year to further enhance their effectiveness in the second year. The Ministry expects to resolve case backlogs in the courts within the next year and a half, in line with the directions set forth during the announcement of the campaigns.
Keng Somarith, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, said that from January 9, 2024, to January 9, 2025, the courts at all levels nationwide resolved a total of 188,942 cases, which is 82.41% of the total 229,272 cases. This figure includes both pending cases before the campaign launch and newly filed cases afterward.
According to the report provided by the Ministry, since the Campaign Leadership Committee announced its acceptance of complaints from citizens who believed that their cases were handled irregularly, a total of 2,413 complaints were submitted to the committee’s secretariat. However, 17 complaints could not be processed. Therefore, the committee officially handled 2,396 complaints.
