assistant administrator.
It will be necessary to change the management
structure below him to get the best spread of responsibility and the clearest reporting chains.
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The Senior Master should assume all the Registrars' legal functions with some delegation to the Masters but the Senior Master and the Masters should be relieved of all administrative duties and left only with their important judicial work and the legal duties. The demands on the Masters have become heavier and without some change an additional Master might have been needed. Under these proposals the Senior Master and the three Masters should see how heavy the load will be when they are relieved of all administrative responsibility. would expect that the Senior Master would have more time for judicial work and that the Masters would continue to help on legal work such as proposals for law reform.
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It will be necessary to work cut details of structure and distribution of duties but they should follow the line that the functions of the Senior Master and Masters are purely legal and that the functions of the Administrator and his assistant are purely administrative. In future an occupant of either of the latter two posts should normally be regarded as having settled on either a career or final posting in administration and not on the bench.
Co-ordination
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So far an important element is missing from these proposals for better administration. It is co-ordination. Without it, advice goes up to the Chief Justice from each chief judicial officer and the administrator, and directions and guidance come down, but the Chief Justice is not helped to make the Judiciary's policies and no organisation can be run without policy without the collective advice
of his advisers.
Nor can one adviser be of much help without knowing
something about the thinking of the others.
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