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Enhancing Judicial Excellence: Professional Development for Longer Serving Judges

This report explores the development of a comprehensive curriculum tailored for longer serving judges in New Zealand, emphasizing ongoing professional education and support. It outlines the importance of building respectful relationships among judges, education committees, and stakeholders to facilitate the orientation of new judges. The curriculum includes a variety of components such as emerging issues, public policy, leadership, and ethics to address the evolving needs of judges throughout their careers. By promoting judicial excellence, the program aims to manage law administration effectively and support judges in achieving reasoned decisions amidst social change.

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Enhancing Judicial Excellence: Professional Development for Longer Serving Judges

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  1. Longer Serving Judges - Theory, Process, Product Justice Rod Hansen Judge John Adams Education

  2. Need Principle Longer Serving Judges

  3. Professional development … of the Judiciary New Zealand Institute of Judicial Studies

  4. Led by judiciary Respectful relationship building through board and bench liaison heads of bench, education committees, stakeholders orientation of new judges Strengths

  5. Curriculum development comprehensive principled all stages of career Process

  6. A curriculum is more than a collection of programmes and seminars. The difference between a curriculum and a series of conference programmes is that a curriculum has, at its core, a logical organisational scheme that encompasses the scope of judicial work. Scope of Curriculum

  7. Support ongoing development of judicial career Promote judicial excellence Awareness law social context administration Statement of Purpose

  8. Manage – law Court and case Reasoned decisions Conduct Social change Nine Curriculum Components

  9. Emerging issues; public policy Health Leadership; administration Technology Nine Curriculum Components (cont’d)

  10. Survey • How long have you been in your judicial role? • What are your personal educational aspirations now in that role? • How are they different from your early years in the role? • What educational opportunities would you like to have over the next five years?

  11. Independent report Consultation groups Board review Consultation Process – Longer Serving Judges

  12. A balanced curriculum includes elements to support judges in the development of their ongoing careers and provides for those needs as part of a cycle.

  13. Refreshment Inspiration Broad context Management-control of docket Lateral sources – e.g. science, literature Needs

  14. Ethics and obligation in judicialdecision making Logic and reasoning in judicialdecision making A programme for longer serving judges Suite of Programmes

  15. Reflect on daily work Challenge and extend thinking Regulate pressures that leadto stress A Programme forLonger Serving Judges

  16. Experience of Others • Have you undertaken any processes to establish the education needs of your longer serving judges? • What other programmes have you experienced or do you know about that may serve the education needs of longer serving judges?

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