The Civil Justice Reform Debate: An African Perspective

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Author(s): Francis Kofi Korankye-Sakyi (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 17
Source title: Advancing Civil Justice Reform and Conflict Resolution in Africa and Asia: Comparative Analyses and Case Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elijah Tukwariba Yin (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)and Nelson F. Kofie (Northern Virginia Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7898-8.ch003

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Criminal Science & Corrections / Government and Law / Security & Forensics

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Civil justice comprises the entire system of the administration of justice in civil matters. One significant discourse concerning the civil justice system in the last three decades is reform. This is due to various controversies around the subject resulting in crises. African approaches to civil justice jurisprudence encompass a variety of theoretical and normative elements that shape the way Africans conceive justice delivery. Over the years of the reform debate, not enough light has been shed on this to explain the existence of such perspective. It is argued that the African position to civil justice in the current reforms debate must not be pinned to just the doctrinal option imbedded in statutes but also be based on methods and procedures nurtured on the soil of Africa that align with the practical needs of the people encompassing social, political, cultural, and religious values. The chapter concludes that the African system of justice delivery is largely mirrored in the Ghanaian experience to justice system in civil jurisprudence.

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