EDO JUDICIARY LAUNCHES MULTI-DOOR COURT WEBSITE AND ONLINE DISPUTES RESOLUTION PLATFORM
By: Emmanuel Adefeso (Esq)
In its bid to ensure an effective justice delivery system, the Edo State Judiciary has launched the Edo State Multi-Door Court website and the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform in the state. The newly sworn-in Chief Judge of the state, Justice Joe Acha, who launched the platform, said that the website was designed to enhance economic development for the citizens of Edo State through ease and effective justice delivery.
Justice Acha stated further that the Online Dispute Resolution platform is suited for commercial disputes which disputants can use to clearly elucidate their interests giving the neutral, more lucid and speedier path to assisting them reach resolution and simultaneously enhancing contract enforcement in Edo state. Also speaking, the functioning Director, Edo State Multi-Door Court
(ESMDC), Mrs Osazemen Olubunmi Achebo said that the goal of the ESMDC was to serve as a vital complement to the existing litigation and justice delivery framework in the judiciary. Mrs. Achebo explained that the online dispute resolution was positioned to project and offer to the general public enhanced, timely, cost effective, and user friendly routes to justice.
Indeed alternative dispute resolution processes are quick, simple, inexpensive and technicality-free processes for the resolution of disputes. They operate side by side with the regular courts as alternatives to litigation because the introduction of multi-door courthouses has revolutionized alternative dispute resolution processes by integrating them into the regular court system. Under the Multi-Door Court House System, settlement agreements and awards reached through arbitration, conciliation and mediation are enforceable as judgments of the High Court. Therefore, the launch of the Edo State Multi-Door Court website and the official takeoff of its Online Dispute Resolution Platform are commendable as it will serve as a vital complement to the existing litigation and justice delivery framework in the judiciary. No doubt, the website will offer to the general public enhanced, timely, cost effective, and user friendly routes to justice, particularly, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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