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the staff cost-effectiveness

are also for him.

and

best

The pursuit of practices is something which he must himself inspire. The application of information technology calls for a committed strategic approach by top management. Strategic attention needs also to be given to the future complementing of the judicial force. An organisation's drive for efficiency must receive its impetus from one top manager.

The main administrative task is the effective assignment cf work to judges. I deal with that later. In that regard the Chief Justice has an overriding responsibility but even there he needs the kind of full and informed advice which can only be given by an administrator with the entire knowledge of the administration at his finger tips

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....There are

some important management functions which will have to be carried cut by one means or another. The best efforts are now being made but the capacity is simply not there while all the senior managers have judicial and legal duties."

Support for the proposal to appoint a Judiciary Administrator

from those who addressed themselves to it in reply to my Discussion

Papers was almost unanimous from within the Judiciary and entirely so

from within the Government. Mr. Jeremy Richardson of the Corruption

Prevention Department in the Independent Commission Against Corruption

wrote as follows :-

"

While I may lay myself open to the accusation of over-generalisation, I think it is true to state that many of the observations made in cur reports concerning the Judiciary have been directed at achieving certain principles of sound management, as our perception of supervisory deficiencies and ill-defined lines of control and organisation became more clear, particularly with the rapid expansion of its workload, which did not appear to be being matched by a corresponding expansion and strengthening of administration. Perhaps I should digress at this point to say a little about Corruption Prevention Department's Although our statutory charter, revision of methods of work or ..... may be conducive to corrupt practices", was originally perceived to be a relatively narrow one, it became evident in the

concerns :

"securing the procedures which

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