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Case Studies
Macedonia
Judicial Strengthening Project (JSP)
Republic
of Macedonia
Study
Tour to Netherlands and Slovenia for
Members
of Macedonian Court Administrators and Court Staff
Den Hague, Netherlands and Ljubljana,
Slovenia
24 September – 03 October, 2013
OBJECTIVE
This
study tour to The Netherlands and Slovenia was designed
to improve
the performance of Macedonian court administrators and court staff in
implementing their functions and responsibilities by learning from
experiences in other countries while gaining necessary knowledge,
skills and abilities as court managers.
The participants
learned to recognize and support reforms that strengthen judicial
independence and promote more effective and accountable court and
administrative operations of the judicial sector administrative and
management bodies and the courts. It addressed the issues of
accountability, transparency and effectiveness and emphasize
communication and cooperation between governing administrative bodies
and institutions. Participants discussed and examined
effective
governance and operational systems for managing court resources,
budgets, human, facilities equipment etc.
Targeted areas for capacity building:
- Improved communication and
coordination among judicial branch actors and governance bodies;
- Improved communication and
coordination between other branches of government;
- Clarification
of roles and responsibilities for serving the needs and management of
the judiciary, courts and governance bodies within the judiciary;
- Enhanced institutional capacity
of the judiciary to manage, based on real needs defined by actual data;
- Expanded view of uses of
automation and case management and information systems;
- Identifying and discovering
laws, policies and practices which improve management and
administration of the judiciary;
- Merit-based approaches used to
hire, evaluate and promote non-judicial staff;
- Preparation of needs-based
budgets based on analysis and projections of actual workloads;
- Public out -reach and
promotions to enhance the citizens trust and confidence ;
- How
to assist the media with understanding court operations and the work of
courts; function of public information officers in the courts and
central court administration;
- Mechanisms to review and
propose laws which support judicial independence and rule of law
OUTCOMES
During the course of this Study Tour, the participants were exposed
to, were given examples of, and discussed:
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Examples of the roles and responsibilities for serving the needs and
management of the judiciary, courts and governance bodies within the
judiciary
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Remarkable examples of enhanced institutional capacity of the judiciary
to manage, based on real needs defined by actual data
- Excellent examples of the uses
of automation, case management, and information systems
- Practical examples of laws,
policies and practices which improve management and administration of
the judiciary
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The role of, and methods of how to assist the media with understanding
court operations and the work of courts; function of public information
officers
- Mechanisms to review and
propose laws which support judicial independence and rule of law
- Methods for communication and
coordination among judicial branch actors and governance bodies
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Communication and coordination between other branches of government;
between the Courts, Ministry of Justice, Parliament(s), etc.
- Merit-based approaches used to
hire, evaluate and promote non-judicial staff
- Real live examples of various
budget methodologies based on analysis and projections of actual
workloads
- The challenges and need for
public out-reach and promotions to enhance the citizens trust and
confidence
Examples of Experience Sharing
meetings in Den Hague and Ljubljana
- Briefings on Court
Administration/Management
- - International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, “The Hague”
- Judicial Training Center of The
Netherlands – Utrecht
- Briefing from Professor Philip
Langbroek, Utrecht School of Law, Utrecht University
- - Professor
of Justice Administration and Judicial Organisation Chair of the
Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative Law,
- Briefing from Council of State of The
Netherlands
- Briefing from Judicial Council of
Republic of Slovenia
- Ministry of Justice of the Republic of
Slovenia
- - Judicial Training Centre
- Supreme Court of the Republic of
Slovenia
ICTY,
The Hague
Famed 3
Bridges, Lubljana
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