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Government is keen to ensure that there is a court recording system in place, says the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Mr Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.
He explained that currently lawyers in court were sometimes asked to speak as fast as the magistrate could write. He said that as such lawyers could get lost in what they were trying to say because they had to slow down.
“In a country like Australia, you have an independent court recording system and at the end of the hearing, at the end of the matters before the court, you can get a transcript printed out pay for it and you take it away with you, that is the ideal situation,” Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said.
Meanwhile the Attorney-General added that a Code of Conduct for public officials was currently being drafted and could be in place in six to nine months time.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum also revealed that the Office of Accountability and Transparency, which had been announced by Prime Minister Bainimarama in his 2010 Budget Address, would be located in the Civic Tower building.
He added that these sorts of tools and mechanism would create accountability, transparency and a sense of empowerment for the ordinary citizens. He said that that was a key process to democratization.
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