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State of Judiciary 2011-2012
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5.3.3 Other Initiatives focused on Organisational Philosophy and
Culture
During the year, initial steps to promote good governance in the
Judiciary have included the launch of an online wealth declaration
portal for all judicial officers and staff. Monitoring of compliance
rates for submission of these wealth declarations is ongoing. In
addition, the development of a specific Judiciary Values and Ethics
framework is under way, alongside steps to update the Judiciary
Code of Ethics and Conduct to reflect key tenets of the Constitution.
5.3.4 Establishing New Leadership and Management Structures
Significant progress has been made in strengthening and improving
leadership and management structures in the Judiciary. This begun
with the reconstituted and revamped Judicial Service Commission
which, in accordance with Section 14 of the Judicial Service Act,
2011, has delegated some of its functions to its subcommittees.
Standing sub-committees now exist for Human Resource
Management, Legal and Technical matters and Finance and
Administration, while ad-hoc committees are constituted on a
needs basis. While the Human Resource Management and
Finance and Administration sub-committees have focused on a
large workload relating to their subject-matter areas, the Legal and
Technical sub-committee has developed Regulations under Section
47 of the Judicial Service Act, as well as amended proposals to the
Environment and Land Court Act No. 19 of 2011 and the Industrial
Court Act No. 20 of 2011 to enhance their operational efficacy.
Within the Judiciary, the multi-stakeholder Leadership and
Management Committee is now firmly established, while at
devolved level, these committees exist in all High Court stations.
In addition, executive offices/secretariats are currently being
established and strengthened for the Chief Justice, Deputy Chief
Justice, Chief Registrar, the President of the Court of Appeal, the
Presiding Judge of the High Court, the Heads of High Court Divisions
and Heads of Stations.
A particular highlight of the year has been the splitting of the
Office of the Chief Registrar vertically (between five registrars)