Leading a delegation representing Kenya's High Court, Justice Gicheru after visiting operations of the Supreme Court here on Tuesday said his delegation was able to draw useful and innovative ways of doing jusitce. He particularly mentions how ICT is being employed at Ethiopian courts as a means of delivering timely justice.

The lessons, he said, would be used as invaluable inputs by Kenya's ongoing justice system reform program.

He said his delegation came to look at and draw experiences from the justice system in Ethiopia, which he described as a country that has most workable legal practices unlike Kenya's justice system which was a legacy imposed while the country was a British colony.

As one of its visit objectives, the delegation would explore ways of raising the capacity of judges through training, he said.

A member of the delegation and editor at "Kenyan Law Reports", Gladys Boss Shelli said the delegation came to Ethiopia to draw first hand experiences of the Ethiopian justice system, whose remarkable improvements had been aprised.

She said Kenya was in the process of putting in place a more transparent, more accountable justice system through the ongoing reform program implementation.

The delegation visited how the Federal Supreme Court is employing ICT through videoconferencing, computerized information exchanges, and a network of relevant archival materials to be used by local courthouses.

Supreme Court Vice President Menberetsehay Tadesse gave briefing to the delegation.

He said Ethiopia achieves a number of gains in its efforts to improve the justice system. Some of the improvements, he said, were novel even by international standards.

Over the past ten years, Ethiopia has implemented its Justice System Reform Program in two phases.

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