State attorney’s office plagued by poor performance, Ronald Lamola says

The office of the state attorney is in a “dire” situation, justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola said in Parliament on Wednesday.

Lamola warned that “government civil litigation, if not handled well, can prove to be a major threat to a country's fiscal liability”. In an interview on the sidelines of the committee meeting, deputy justice minister John Jeffery cited some of the problems affecting the state attorney's office. “It is no secret that a number of judges have complained about the performance of the state attorney's offices. It is not so much an issue of losing cases but issues of complying with the requirements relating to the service of documents, filing of affidavits, noting of appeals and so on — sometimes those are not done properly.”

Well it doesn't really help when you are the minister of Justice and you keep on undermining the courts...

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