SAJEI Annual Report V12

3.6. ASPIRING REGIONAL AND SENIOR MAGISTRATES QUARTER 2

1. Workshop:

Aspiring Senior Magistrates 28 - 30 September 2017

Date:

Content:

Judicial independence and accountability; leadership and management skills; work profile: senior magistrates (performance standards and judicial manual); overview on cluster management; office administration; case flow management; Judicial quality assurance and misconduct proceedings

Province:

Gauteng

Number of delegates: 32 QUARTER 1

1. Workshop:

Judicial skills for Aspiring Regional Magistrates

Date:

24 June - 22 July 2017

Content:

Judicial leadership & trial management in the regional court; transfers, bail applications; judgment writing; pleas (including section 105A); dealing with admissibility of different types of evidence; violent crimes: judgments; sexual offences; sexual offences: dealing with child witnesses and procedural aspects; commercial crimes, corruption and environmental crimes

Province:

Limpopo

Number of delegates: 27 QUARTER 3

1. Workshop:

Judicial skills for Aspiring Regional Magistrates

Date:

7 October - 11 November 2017

Content:

Judicial leadership and trial management in the regional court; dealing with pre-trial aspects; aspects of law of evidence; judgment writing; Child Justice Act (2008); bail applications; murder (assessors and dolus eventualis); robbery (general principles, common purpose and recent possession) and sexual offences; DNA evidence; rape judgments; corruptions and traps

Province:

Gauteng

Number of delegates: 25

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