Cape Coast (Central Region) -- Work has started at the high courts complex at Cape Coast to modernise three high courts within the complex by January next year as part of the reform and modernisation of the judicial system.

The work involves the renovation of the building and these include painting, re-wiring, installing computers, recording systems and other modern communication gadgets.

Justice George Acquah, a Supreme Court Judge and Chairman of the ''Automation and Reform Committee'' of the Judicial Service said this to the GNA in an interview on Tuesday.

Justice Acquah, who was leading a three-member team from the committee to inspect progress of work, said renovation works were going on in all high courts throughout the country.

He said the team had visited Koforidua, Ho and Tema and would next visit Takoradi and expressed the hope that the renovations would be completed on schedule to enable the computerisation programme to take off.

During the annual general meeting of the Ghana Bar Association at Elmina in September the Chief Justice, Justice E.K. Wiredu, announced that the World Bank had agreed to spend over 14 billion cedis in the expansion projects at the high courts in all the 10 regional capitals.

He said Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi high courts were to be automated while the remaining ones would be equipped with computers and recording systems.