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Chief Justice Korkpor urges lawyers, Judges and Jurors to be guided by their conscience

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-In dispensing justice without fear or favor

By Garmah Never Lomo,garmahlomo@gmail.com

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, Francis S .Korkpor Sr. has told lawyers, prospective jurors, and Judges that they should let their conscience be their guide as they dispense justice.

The Cambridge dictionary defines conscience as  “the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you.”

Speaking during the opening of the May Term of Court at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia recently, the head of the Judiciary said if lawyers, judges, prospective jurors to dispense justice without fear or favor their conscience will always set them free.

He said if justice are not dispensed by these groups of people, their conscience will never permit them to sleep well, because they have hurt someone wrongly.

The head of the Judiciary disclosed that one who do something whether right or wrong they will live by their conscience, and even in their graves their conscience will speak for them.

Chief Korkpor added that the issues of pre-trial detainees is a serious matter in the country and this serious matter blame is been shift on the Judiciary system.

Liberia’s chief Justice expressed the rule of law is a collaboration and team work and cautioned lawyers to time conscience wherever place they are assigned.

Chief Justice Korkpor also called on laywers, magistrates and Judges to know what amount to civil charge should not be used for criminal charge, which is one of those charges causing the overcrowding of prisons in Liberia.

                                             
He said that reason why Judges and Magistrates usually sent people to jail is that they are afraid of being criticized or accused but told them regardless of what will say they should go by the laws and their conscience.

The Judiciary head called on Judges, lawyers and prospective jurors that when cases are good or bad they say it adding in so doing they are dispensing justice that they cannot see.

According to Chief Justice Korkpor,t we are living in a country where people only politicize things rather than reading the opinion of the courts.

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