PUTRAJAYA, Aug 10 – The Malaysian judiciary’s implementation of a mechanism which proved to be extremely effective in expeditiously clearing the backlog of court cases, has captured world attention.

These countries now want to come to Malaysia to study the mechanism.

This was revealed by Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi at the swearing-in ceremony of eight judicial commissioners who were elevated to high court judges today.

In his speech, he said among the countries which came forward to study the methods practised by the Malaysian judiciary included Commonwealth countries and non-Commonwealth such as Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Singapore, Brunei, Bangladesh, Turkey, Nigeria, Seychelles Island, Australia and Canada.

He said the approach introduced by the judiciary since early last year, which were found to be extremely effective in disposing off the backlog of cases included enhancing the competency of judges and court staff, increasing the number of judges and improving infrastructure.

Other steps taken by the judiciary were avoiding frivolous litigation, full utilisation of court working hours, applying judiciously, the practice of adjournment of court cases and adoption of alternative dispute redress mechanisms and ending court boycotts. – Bernama