"The use of cell phones in registry offices should not be allowed, and it is up to the management and disciplinary bodies to monitor more rigorously the attitude of the judicial employee", said Joel Leonardo this Wednesday, at the opening of the sixth ordinary session of the CSMJ plenary.
The plenary meeting assessed the performance of the Angolan courts in satisfying citizens' legal appeals, with Joel Leonardo calling for the files to be resolved "in a timely manner".
With an intervention focused on procedural speed in the courts, the president of the CSMJ defended, in particular, that the eviction "should not take many years, because there is a risk of generations of families being evicted who have nothing to do with the problem".
Also "the sharing of the inheritance must be done in a timely manner, so that the financial amounts cover the basic expenses of the interested parties, such as health and tuition fees", he highlighted, stressing that the summary judgment must be carried out "as quickly as possible".
The judicial magistrate also defended, in his analysis of the courts' activity, that the fixing of food must be immediate, as, he noted, "hunger and nakedness of the minor or widow do not wait".
The approval of agreements between disagreeing businesspeople, he pointed out, must take place in the trading rooms "with the appropriate speed" provided for by commercial law.
He also argued that "the end of the sentence must reach the cell, where the inmate is confined, so that he himself can control the end of the sentence."
According to the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, who presides over the CSMJ due to his duties, strict compliance with the law in the daily action of the courts translates into the implementation of the so-called "right to a judge".
He explained that "the right to a judge" implies that "despite his independence", the judge "is under permanent scrutiny in the interest of citizens".
"The right to a judge means, in short, that the judge gives himself body and soul to his mission as a distributor of justice, in the sense that each case that falls to him is a means, or a vehicle, to restore peace to the community, the restoration of constitutional order", concluded Joel Leonardo.
