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.
33.
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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
34.
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
of his edvisers.
without the collective advice
Nor can one adviser be of much help without knowing
something about the thinking of the others.
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