The courts and judges register

The register

Every hearing, case and court deadline names a court from this register, so the court diary, the deadline rules and the reports all speak of the same court in the same way.

The register is arranged by class of court (Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Circuit Court, District Court, and tribunals such as the National Labour Commission), then the courts in each class, then their divisions and registries by region and town.

A court's record

A court opens on its Overview, with tabs for its Divisions, Registries, Judges, and the firm's work there: the Cases before it, the Hearings listed there and the Fees paid at its registry, each a page at a time and searched on the server.

A class of court (the High Court) is not a court anyone appears before: it groups the courts that sit in places (the High Court, Accra) and defines the divisions they share. Its page lists its courts and divisions, and reads the cases, hearings and fees of every court under it. Registries, judges, cases and hearings belong to a court in a place, and the system refuses to put any of them on a class.

Judges sit by postings

A judge's place on a court is a posting: from a day, in a division where the court keeps them, until it ends. A judge holds one posting at a time.

1. Open the court, then Judges.
2. Post a judge takes a judge the firm has on file, the first day they sit here, and the division. New judge adds a judge and posts them here in one step.
3. From a posting's menu, Transfer to another court ends it and opens the next the same day; End posting takes the last day and the reason.

A judge's record lists every posting in order under Postings, the cases before them under Matters heard and the sittings they sat under Hearings sat. A judge who retires or leaves the bench has their posting ended. The judge's own form no longer changes the court: the posting does.

A court or judge that any record names cannot be deleted, only retired, so history keeps its meaning.