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Parliament has been admonished to desist from slashing budget allocated to the judiciary.

The nominee for the position as Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo made the appeal when she appeared before the Appointments Committee on Friday.

In her view, slashing the budget approved and allocated to them will hamper their work.

“If we get all the money that we need to do the work that we need to do it will ensure that all the more, sooner rather than later, we will be able to do all the training we need to do for judges [among others] so that we improve on the quality of service from the lower courts all the way up. We will be able to provide all the facilities that are prerequisite for running a good court where everything works as it should be with good technical assistance and research for judges and all that to come up earlier in judgements.’’

She has also promised to ensure that each 216 district in the country gets a court to improve upon justice delivery in the country.

"Every district is supposed to have a court" she said adding "we will go through the necessary steps to make sure that indeed every district is adequately served with a district court".