Courts | Ip Son Sang says new judges will help to relief work pressure

The Public Prosecutor General, Ip Son Sang, thinks that the new judges and magistrates inaugurated yesterday will help to relieve the pressure that is currently being experienced by judiciary bodies due to lack of staff.
“I think with the new magistrates the [work] pressure that we feel on the judiciary bodies will be somehow relieved because in the current judiciary system, there is at least one person performing public duties out of the Public Prosecutions Office [MP] [that cannot be replaced] and for the others we can only replace them when they ask for retirement,” Ip told the media on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of the new five public prosecutors who joined the MP yesterday.

Ho I Sut, Mui Cheng Fei, Chong Sio U, Pao In Hang and Lei Un San are the new delegates of the MP and Ip received them in good spirit, saying, “the start of new magistrates is good news for the judiciary bodies and for the judiciary system of Macau.” He voiced his hope that the five “can adjust themselves to the work pace as fast as possible, in order to contribute to the judiciary work of Macau SAR.”

Nevertheless, the Prosecutor General noted that the recruitment of the five new public prosecutors will not solve all the problems, as Ip, claimed, “We also have to recruit more court officials.”

Questioned also on the sidelines of the event on the need to revise the Legal Framework of Macau Judiciary Organization, Ip did not dismiss this possibility, but indicated that any changes performed on such important elements can only be conducted after a significant evaluation.
“Laws need to correspond to the demands of social development,” Ip said, adding, “all the laws that need to be revised, should be targeted with a profound evaluation.”

Questioned also on the topic of the new regulations of the bills on the National Anthem Law, which is now a part of the Basic Law of Macau SAR, the Prosecutor General declined to give a formal answer on the penalties that could be placed on the region as he said, “at the moment we need to evaluate how to apply this law [first].”