Our challenges

We face challenges in the following areas:

• The inefficient administration of justice resulting, for example, in the prevalent backlog of cases in courts and the increasing number of people held in detention awaiting trial
  
  
• Lack of access to justice and dispute settlement mechanisms
  
  
• Terrorism - we are continually trying to modernise and keep a step ahead of tactics terrorists use
  
  
• Drafting of laws - there is a persistent shortage of trained legislative drafters in developing Commonwealth countries
  
  
• The lack of access to and dissemination of laws
  
  
• The lack of free access to legal information and materials
  
  
• Developing a holistic solution to the combating of counterfeiting and piracy which carries multiple implications