The appointment of the five acting judges will bring the total number of judges to 43.
The five new judges will be officially sworn into office at a later date.
The appointment of the five acting judges was announced by the Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission and Minister for Justice and Attorney General Ano Pala following a meeting last month.
This will help strengthen the judiciary’s capacity in dealing with the backlog of cases pending before the courts, especially those criminal cases.