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Direction of the JTC
Topic Started: Apr 20 2012, 11:43 PM (230 Views)
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Over the past few months, discussions have been occurring amongst the Justices in relation to the development of the Judicial Training Centre and these have now come to a firm conclusion.

Presently, the Judicial Training Centre is based around courses on 'Legal Theory' which, rather than meaning jurisprudence, incorporates topics such as how to use authorities, statutory construction and the rules of evidence. These skills are among the most crucial within the Europeian legal system. Recently, however, the Judicial Training Centre's opportunity to engage in conventional tuition directly has been limited, notably due to a lack of demand (an examination of responses to recent lessons is telling) and also due to the time constraints on providers. To an extent, such is inevitable of any NationStates 'university' scenario, of which the Judicial Training Centre is effectively a mirror.

In contrast to most NationStates universities, the Judicial Training Centre has been given a specific purpose beyond abstract education on typically real life issues; namely, the development of future judicial expertise. At the moment its structure does not fulfil that purpose. Fundamentally, the core duties of the judiciary relate to the cases which come before the Court, not managing the region's legal system in general, which is most properly an executive responsibility (hence why increased cooperation with the Attorney General on these issues is welcome). However, it is desirable that the judiciary contributes to this process and the judiciary does have a significant role to play in upholding the legal system and ensuring the development of a future judiciary. The Judicial Training Centre is currently the means of delivering this, though by no means is it the only source of trained judges within our regions and there is no reason why committed and competent laymen should not be able to undertake judicial roles.

It is important to be realistic in our expectations of the Judicial Training Centre, especially in light of the constraints which have been acknowledged from the outset. Alone, conventional methods are not going to be persistently provided or attract significant learner participation. Assuming the tuition and the students exist, the current programme of study will continue, to be provided through the Professor of Law position appointed by the judiciary (the Professor may hire assistance as he sees fit), and it will equip citizens with the skills previously described for joining the judiciary. This programme may well be expanded by drawing on this region's admittedly insubstantial statutes and case law to offer specific (and exploratory) teaching in specific fields of law, such as criminal and constitutional law.

However, the Judicial Training Centre overall must become more dynamic. This primarily means two changes. First, the JTC will become a depository of legal knowledge, with justices and prominent legal thinkers within the region being invited to post lectures or articles on issues in Europeian law or legal philosophy of interest to them. The importance of this approach is to raise legal awareness, an objective which may well be more achievable than directly teaching new judges and will encourage interested citizens to consider legal issues directly, providing the stimulus for their own legal development and ultimately aiding future judicial recruitment organically. This will be coordinated through the judiciary, with citizens wishing to contribute asked to contact the Chief Justice.

Secondly, the JTC will henceforth be hosting specific events which are more likely to get learner participation than direct teaching, such as mooting and (as was earlier publicly suggested by Skizzy Grey) debate series, which the judiciary will be responsible for the organisation of. The key to such events will be to debate probing issues which do not involve prejudging legal issues (which would compromise the judiciary's main role, so will not be permitted) and thus such events may well relate to either purely abstract or alternatively settled points of law, rather than issues likely to be required in future application.

It is hoped that, within this scheme, the Judicial Training Centre will become a functioning entity. Finally, even now he is among the Justices, it would be amiss of me not to thank Swakistek for his persistent effort as Professor of Law, which continues to form the bedrock of the Judicial Training Centre.
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