6.
Appointing a Judicial Studies Board as at Recommendation 36
will cost very little of itself since most of its members and whatever
staff-time it needs will come from within the Judiciary. The Board might itself recommend some expenditure but this would not be great if
the work for seminars were mostly done, as I would advise, by judges
and judicial officers. Potential financial savings are not readily quantifiable but any consequential avoidance of unnecessary appeals or
improvement in judicial flexibility could amount to savings;
flexibility is really part of the package of proposals in
Recommendations 1-31.
7.
Computerisation (Recommendations 37 and 38) will cost money
in the beginning. Can the Judiciary afford not to devise and implement
a computer strategy of some sort?
8.
Implementing Recommendations 32-35 (on court reporting) will also cost money because more staff will be needed to keep records in
court and to transcribe from both shorthand and sound recordings and
because there will be the costs of procuring and maintaining fresh
equipment. Here the costers must look to the potential savings of
court-time which are considerable especially in the higher courts.
9.
Of the
Some of the recommendations 1-31 on judicial administration,
judicial assignment and listing will cost little or nothing.
main costs flowing from others there will be :-
(a)
a pay lead for the few existing judicial posts
enhanced to presider level;
(b) a pay lead for the new administrator post over
the Registrar post which it will replace;
(c) some increases in the staff establishment,
after the
the potential for re-organisation and
redevelopment has been consumed, to provide:
(i) a management structure below the
administrator and
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