SAJEI Annual Report V12

Enhancing Judicial Excellence

19. Workshop:

Judicial management and Quality Control

Date:

24 - 26 July 2017

Content:

Overview of the Magistrates’ Commission: operations and mandate; mission, vision and core values of the Magistrates’ Courts Judiciary; judicial management: enabling legislation; overview of the Judicial Manager/leader’s role; court performance (Norms and Standards); Code of Conduct – Magistrates; management meetings and subsistence travel claims: managerial responsibilities

Province

Gauteng

Number of delegates 15

20. Workshop:

Children’s Court skills

Date:

24 - 26 July 2017

Content:

Overview of critical concepts in the Children’s Act and the best interest standard; jurisdiction of Children’s Court; parental responsibilities and rights – Chapter 3; practical exercise of parenting plans and parental responsibilities and rights agreements; removal of children to safe care and the review of the removal and foster care placements and the extension thereof; monitoring, variation, extension and termination of orders (Chapters 3 and 9)

Province:

Free State

Number of delegates: 15

21. Workshop:

Civil Court skills 25 - 28 July 2017

Date:

Content:

Action procedures; management and the adjudication of civil trials; practical exercises for judgment writing; management and adjudication of motions (opposed and unopposed); introduction and overview of judgment writing including writing process

Province:

Western Cape

Number of delegates: 19

22. Workshop:

Civil Court skills 27 - 28 July 2017

Date:

Content:

Overview of nature of cost awards and taxation of cost – with reference to relevant Magistrates’ Court Sections (48) and Rule (37); guidelines for cost orders, preparation costs, time spent waiting at court, subsistence travelling expenses, fees for counsel, costs on a higher scale, costs of assessors; specific cost orders, review of taxation, nature and process of taxation; qualifying fees, counsels’ fees, briefing counsel, fees for attorney in High Court, contingency fee

Province:

KwaZulu-Natal

Number of delegates: 16

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SAJEI I Annual Report I 2017/18