27.
Selecting an Administrator
In selecting the right man or woman for appointment 25
Judiciary Administrator I advise no preference as between lawyers and
others. The aim should be to find the best person for the job
regardless of provenance.
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The content of the job is administrative and not legal for to
give the administrator any function as lawyer would be to reduce his
capacity as administrator.
This inevitably gives the trained
administrator an advantage over the trained lawyer. On the other hand
the whole of the upper echelons of the Judiciary are composed of
judicial officers - a special type of lawyer. It is likely that in
the beginning at least they will feel more comfortable with a lawyer
and therefore more amenable to his administration. And he or she will
more readily understand again in the beginning the problems of
judicial systems and the ways in which judges work.
"get more out of the judges" and cause them less anxiety.
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administration
A lawyer might
The difficulty is the main requirement of the job which is a
talent for quite large-scale
the public sector.
Nobody is born with that
and hardly any working lawyers get
opportunities to acquire it. The job is too important to permit
chances to be taken and it is, therefore, my advice that experience of
administration comes before legal experience. A good administrator
ought to be able to overcome the disadvantage of not being a lawyer but
the converse does not necessarily apply. Nevertheless it would not be
sensible to assume that there are no suitable lawyer candidates.
I
therefore recommend that the Civil Service Branch be invited to submit
a list of candidates from a wide field.
30.
A Proposed Allocation of Functions
The responsibilities of the job will be widely spread and
will include the following :
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