{"id":174973,"date":"2024-06-21T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sakoane-tightens-judicial-screws\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:14:49","slug":"lesotho-sakoane-tightens-judicial-screws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sakoane-tightens-judicial-screws\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Sakoane Tightens Judicial Screws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;issues code of conduct for judges<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230;they must now issue judgments within 90 days<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Moorosi Tsiane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has answered the nation&#8217;s cries for more efficiency in the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He has gazetted a new Code of Ethics regulating the manner in which judges are to conduct themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Apart from outlining the principles that judges must conform to when performing their duties, they are now required to deliver judgements within three months after hearing cases.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.adsense-outer-ad-container.adsense-responsive-outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The move comes as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406170271.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;issues code of conduct for judges &#8230;they must now issue judgments within 90 days Moorosi Tsiane CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has answered the nation&#8217;s cries for more efficiency in the judiciary. He has gazetted a new Code of Ethics regulating the manner in which judges are to conduct themselves. Apart from outlining the principles that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,9667,4717,1407,257,36804,15954,254,6846],"class_list":["post-174973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-judicial","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sakoane","tag-screws","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tightens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}