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Education
Methodology of Developing Curricula
Curricula
ON THE JOB TRAINING
Induction courses for magistrates, court
presidents, court clerks and other support staff
mostly on substantive procedural subjects,
judicial and prosecutorial skills (our court
clerks act as prosecutors in the Local and
Central Courts) and administrative matters as
most judicial officers' functions also entail
being administrators of their courts.
Local, regional, continental and international
courses, workshops, seminars and conferences on
a number of topical legal issues.
Few court presidents have attended the Family
Law and Family Court Processes wherein
indigenous and religious laws were addressed Most magistrates have attended numerous courses,
workshops, seminars and conferences which
covered a number of topical issues and amongst
them they covered the following areas:
Family Law and Family Court Processes, Judicial
System Training in Drug-Related Casework, Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice, Enforcement and
Implementation Aspects of Anti – Money
Laundering Legislation, International
Co-operation in the Combating of Terrorism and
its Financing, Commonwealth Workshop for Human
Rights Defenders for the African Region, The
Pan-African Forum on the Commonwealth (Latimer
House) Principles on the Accountability of and
the Relationship between the Three Branches of
Government, to mention but a few.
As it has been identified that one of the
reasons for delays in the administration of
justice is poor supervision and performance
accountability a number of local meetings and
workshops were held on performance assessment,
accountability systems and community service as
a way of improving the methods of performance
assessment and accountability systems in the
subordinate courts and, where practicable, to
also assist other sectors in the justice sector
in their performance.
FORMAL TRAINING AND
DEVELOPMENT
LONG-TERM
TRAINING:
We have long-term training which is
intended for the acquisition of academic and professional
qualifications for effectiveness in job performance and it is
funded by the individual judicial officer
through loan bursaries or otherwise. As this
training is longer than six (6) months the
judicial officer has to be on study leave with
full pay for the first six(6) months and
thereafter on half-pay until completion of
studies.
As the officer will draw a salary during the
period of training, the training she/he
undertakes should not be his/her exclusive
choice but it should also be the preferred
choice of his/her manager as it should be
training that will benefit the judiciary and not
just the officer.
Currently one (1) Judicial Commissioner is on a
two-year study leave pursuing a Master of Laws
(LLM) in Child Justice Two (2) Local Court Presidents are on five (5)
year study leave pursuing Bachelor of Laws
(LLB), they are left with two (2) and three (3)
years respectively
PART-TIME
TRAINING:
Academic qualifications can also be acquired
through part-time and/or distance education and
in this instance the officer remains on the job
but there may be periodic releases which in
terms of the Lesotho Public Service Training and
Development (which currently applies even for
the judiciary) should cumulatively be a maximum
period of eight (8) weeks for every year of
study. As we are once again referring to
acquisition of academic skills this kind of
training is funded by the individual officer
The Local Law
Certificate Programme
This programme is run by the ministry of justice
through the office of the Magistrate (Judicial)
Training Officer It is both a part-time and distant education programme as those who fail to attend part-time
classes still receive their study materials,
assignments and feed-backs through hand or post
deliveries In this programme we use part-time lectures who
are mostly magistrates, legal practitioners and
people with particular theoretical and
practicalexpertise in certain subjects The methodology used is attendance of three (3)
one (1) week study schools, submission of two
(2) assignments, and the sitting for one (1)
trial examination and first-part final
examination for the first six (6) months and the
same procedure is again adopted during the next
six(6) months of the year with the second part
examinations being written at the end of the
year. The work-load will depend on the number of
subjects for which one is registered. As this is a part-time, distance and open programme for people who are mostly in full-time
employment there is a flexibility that one can
complete it in three(3) years. Currently a total
of nine (9) subjects are offered and the
syllabus is attached for ease of
reference This programme is intended for all members of
law-enforcement agencies who do not have basic
knowledge of the law but priority is given to
Central and Local Court Presidents and Court
Clerks in the Local, Central, Judicial
Commissioner's and Magistrates' Courts. The next
priority is given to other law enforcement
officers and finally we reserve a certain quota
for fresh school leavers as one of the
job-specifications of the position of Court
Clerk is that they should be in possession of a
Local Law Certificate and for this reason we
have to give allowance for the training of
aspiring court clerks The objective of the programme is to give
serving officers and aspiring officers basic
training in law for effective job-performance
BUDGET:
The total budget for the subordinate courts for
fiscal year 2006/2007 is M30, 935, 800.00
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND
REHABILITATION'S LOCAL LAW CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME
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Schedule of Activities
A Workshop on Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Service and Execution of Court Process : Challenges for the Local and Central Court Messengers
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12th - 14th September, 2007 - Central Region
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9th - 11th December, 2007 - Southern Region
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13th - 15th January, 2008 - Northern Region
Fighting ¡§Corruption¡¨ in the Judiciary ; Building a Respectable Judiciary in Lesotho : Challenges Faced by the Local and Central Court Presidents and Court Clerks
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18th - 21st September, 2007 - Central Region
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12th - 15th December, 2007 - Southern Region
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16th - 19th January, 2008 - Northern Region
National Deputy-Sheriffs and Senior Clerks of Court Symposium, 10th ¡V 15th February, 2008 National Magistrates¡¦ Conference to address the challenges of Electronic Records, Ethics and Accountability and the Challenges of Enviromental for Lesotho, 20th ¡V 23rd February, 2008
Long Range Plan and Priorities
Faculty Development
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