4th Advanced Training Course Justice XXI
Reforms centred on the organization and management of courts have come to constitute one of the main wagers of the judicial system reform agenda in many countries. In its basis, lies the idea that the path to legitimacy, efficiency and justice quality must pass through the quest for new solutions of organizing and management nature. Between us, reform of the map and judicial organization in progress has stimulated this matter. However, the lack of training and professionalization within the areas of court administration and management, has been acknowledge, thus introducing a permanent factor of limitation and incapacity in the governance of the judicial system, not only hindering, the efficiency of reforms, but also, arousing logics of action adverse to its objectives. This circumstance thus induces this training programme to initiate itself with a joint session of trainers. The importance of this thematic, therefore, justifies the consolidation of a permanent advanced training programme in court organization and management within Advanced Training Programme Justice XXI. This advanced training programme aims to confront the trainees with the requirements of organising and management nature that are presently posed onto the judicial system and to allow them access more up-to-date models of public management and administration, duly applied to the judicial field, so as to enable them a better and more qualified performance of jurisdictional and justice administration activity. For the professionals that will come to perform specific functions of court administration and management, the course aims to endow them with the capacity and theoretical as well as practical instruments necessary towards the achievement of the goals of the court organization, administration and management reform now in progress. The advanced training seeks introducing, besides necessary multidisciplinary orientation, a concern of comparative nature, motivating the discussion on administrative and management models applied in other systems. Furthermore, aims to frame it in what should be the principles and purposes of the construction of a new judicial system. These two angles constitute the central aims of the international conference “State, society and justice in the 21st Century: democracy, quality and efficiency in judicial courts” with which we shall initiate the training course.
Open to all justice professionals or with relation to this sector, namely judicial magistrates and of public attorneys, lawyers, judicial clerks, technicists of State institutions particularly tied to judicial administration, post-graduate courses (master and doctorate) students. Also destined to the training of magistrates interested in performing functions of court presidents, coordinator magistrate, coordinator public attorney magistrate and judicial administrator*. * Protocol with CEJ reserves an 8 place quota.
Portuguese Judges Trade Union Association
Conceição Gomes and António Casimiro Ferreira (Centre for Social Studies/Permanent Observatory for Portuguese Justice) The advanced training course shall take place at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra – Colégio de S. Jerónimo – Coimbra. Housing arrangement possibility at “Casa do Juiz”, Bencanta, Coimbra (limited number). For those interested contact: justicaxxi@ces.uc.pt
Deadline for registrations: September 30th, 2008 Registration Forms: Normal (200 Euros) ASJP associates* (140 Euros) – Choose “other”/ “outro” when filling out the registration form. *ASJP associates benefit a 30% reduction.
October 10th 14H30-18H00 Trainers
9h30-13h00 Court organisation and judicial administration in the context of State functions 14h30-18h00 Models of court organisation and management in compared experience and in Portugal: a new challenge for the judicial system Trainers
14h30-18h00 Communication and information systems: the technological modernisation of justice as potentiator of court access, quality and efficiency. Trainers
9h30-13h00 Human Resource Management: motivation, assessment and leadership Trainers 14h30-18h00 Trainers
9h30-13h00 and 14h30-17h00 Civil process and new challenges of processual management Trainers Commentary |