Iders calling for CJ’s resignation

he constitutional right o a fair hearing within reasonable time.” The newspaper statd that the matter of utstanding judgments y the Supreme Court ad come up even rior to Justice enjamin’s tenure in elize and that the Bar ssociation had taken n the Judiciary when r. Abdulai Conteh erved as Chief Justice f Belize, but at the me, the contention as that there were ver 50 delayed judgments, with about 60% f those pending from then upreme Court Justice Samuel wich. According to the Amandala rticle, the allegation now is hat Justice Benjamin is esponsible for the bulk of the ending cases, as the other jusces have tried to keep their acklogs to a minimum.

According to the document eferenced by 7 News, the ewspaper said, judgment is ending in 30 cases before the upreme Court, with delays panning from two years to ve years, five months, and most of these cases are before he Honorable Chief Justice.”

It was reported that over a ear ago, Justice Benjamin ad pledged to deliver on averge two decisions a week to y to clear the backlog, but the ontention is that he hasn’t.

“Amandala is informed by a member of the Bar…that the ar has decided to hold back n taking any action until after eptember, after the court’s ecess, which would allow the hief Justice an opportunity to y to make amends during his acation, as he has requested”,