NewJudicial Administration: Effective case management, reducing delays and clearing backlogs

How participants will benefit

By the end of the workshop you will have improved your understanding of:

• The importance of an overall modernisation strategy
• The benefits of judicial case management
• The key principles of judicial records management
• The role of e-systems in the justice sector
• Methods of ensuring consistent judicial information resources
• Information management based approaches to enabling extempore appeal judgements
• Ways of improving digital, hybrid and paper-based court information and records management
• Approaches to managing court information projects.

What the workshop will cover

The workshop will include briefing sessions, discussions, case studies, practical work and visits. It has been designed to be flexible so that it can be adjusted wherever practicable to meet your specific requirements and those of your organisation.

You will be able to:

• Place improvements in court case management in the context of the wider initiatives to improve the delivery of justice
• Understand the underlying principles and key stages of professional court records management
• Explain the opportunities and challenges the introduction of electronic case handling represents
• Recognise the value of good quality information sources for judges
• Describe approaches to delivering immediate decisions on appeal cases

Outline the core principles of managing court information projects effectively