Hire more pros­e­cu­tors be­fore hir­ing more judges.

This was the sug­ges­tion of a ju­nior State coun­sel in re­sponse to re­ports that the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (ODPP) has been un­able to as­sign pros­e­cu­tors to four re­cent­ly ap­point­ed judges due to chron­ic and ever in­creas­ing staff short­ages.

Speak­ing un­der the con­di­tion of anonymi­ty fol­low­ing a re­port on cor­re­spon­dence sent re­cent­ly by DPP Roger Gas­pard to act­ing Supreme Court Reg­is­trar Kim­ber­ly Prescott, the pros­e­cu­tor con­firmed Gas­pard’s claims over the con­straints faced by his of­fice and staff.