the structure and functioning of judicial administration;
resource management;
judicial experience;
court reporting;
information technology;
case preparation, estimating and listing;
monetary jurisdictional limits;
court structures;
the distribution of court business.
This led me to write four confidential Discussion Papers and send them to all judicial officers, some Judiciary staff, the legal profession, the Government Secretariat and other public institutions.
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received
with the Bar
As will
I sent the Discussion Papers to 161 addressees, replies from 29 and held or participated in a number of meetings with judges, magistrates and all the other judicial officers, and the Law Society and with Government members and cfficials. appear in the following pages I have been considerably helped towards Whether I my proposals by all that emerged both orally and in writing. agree with a contributor or not I value his or her contribution.
or
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The purpose of the papers was to invite and promote comment, most especially by the people most concerned namely judges and judicial officers, on my main thoughts. All addressees were invited to reply in writing and all saw my terms of reference. 15,000 words were divided into four main subjects so that recipients could choose what interested
rest
There thea and ignore the
if they liked.
was nothing to
discourage people from disagreeing with specific
general
propositions, from criticising omissions cr from saying the exercise was on the wrong lines. With a very few exceptions the responses indicated that the meaning was clear enough. I hoped the exercise
would be seen by judicial officers 15 an opportunity to express thoughts and ideas about how the Judiciary might be run there being the
added stimulus of an
the over impending constitutional transition horizon and therefore that I would receive 2 large number of individual
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