Benefits and Costs
37.
I would invite those who look for a cost/benefit analysis of
strengthened administration to understand this Report. In order to be
sufficiently effective and efficient the Judiciary needs to achieve
certain things. These emerge expressly or by implication throughout
the Report. Ways and means of achieving them are set out. There are however two essential conditions: first, the Judiciary can achieve them
only by going out and getting them itself; there is literally no-one
else to do it; secondly, the Judiciary must take systematic charge of
the flow of its own business. The services of a trained senior
administrator are essential a point with which most people seem to
agree. But neither he nor the Chief Justice can co-ordinate the work
of every court and tribunal. Nor can the two of them know enough to
reach informed decisions about strategy without judicial input. The
key to a more effective, more productive and more efficient Judiciary is a combination of presiding judges, administration and collective
advice. Such concepts as listing systems and pre-trial procedures are
mere tools. To work well they must be well and responsibly wielded.
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There is, therefore, no cost/benefit analysis in this Report. A few simple calculations will nevertheless be useful. In my proposals the presiders are all working judges so there is no increase in the
judicial establishment. In terms of top salaries the increased cost would be by the application of new pay points for the presiders and by
an administrator's salary instead of the
suggested below :-
Registrar's salary as
Monthly: Old Salary
New Salary
New Salary Addition
President, Court of Appeal
$58,800
60,950
2,150
President, High Court
$57,200
58,800
1,600
President, District Court
$42,800
57,200 14,400
Assistant President,
District Court
$42,800
48,650 5,850
Chief Magistrate
$36,900
42,800 5,900
President, Labour Tribunal
$31,050
42,800 11,750
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