Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has decided that the commission does not have the legal authority to advice on increasing the judges bench of a superior court for ongoing cases.
JSC held discussions on whether the commission had the authority to advise a court to add more than one judge to the bench of a case that a superior court is investigating.
However, according to the Courts Act, the chief judges of the courts are responsible for deciding the number of judges that would preside over a case based on the nature of the case, and such decisions are not within JSC's jurisdiction, the commission decided
