Introduction

For over a decade, the Pacific Judicial Development Programme (PJDP) has supported a range of judicial and court development activities in partner courts across the Pacific. These activities have focused on regional judicial leadership meetings and networks, capacity-building and training, and pilot projects to address the local needs of courts in Pacific Island Countries (PICs).

Toolkits

Since mid-2013, PJDP has launched a collection of toolkits for the ongoing development of courts in the region. These toolkits aim to support partner courts to implement their development activities at the local level by providing information and practical guidance on what to do. The toolkits include:

• Access to Justice
  
• Public Information
• Enabling Rights
• Judges' Orientation
• Training-of-Trainers (ToT)
  
• Judicial Conduct
  
• Family Violence/Youth Justice
• Time Goals
  
• Reducing Backlog and Delay
• Judicial Decision-making
• Judicial Complaints Handling
  
• Annual Court Reporting
• Project Management
• Judicial Development Committees
  

These toolkits are designed to support change by promoting the local use, management, ownership and sustainability of judicial development in PICs across the region. By developing and making available these resources, PJDP aims to build local capacity to enable partner courts to address local needs and reduce reliance on external donor and adviser support.

Use and support

These toolkits are available on-line for the use of partner courts. We hope that partner courts will use these toolkits as/when required. Should you need any additional assistance, please contact us at: pjdp@fedcourt.gov.au.

Your feedback

We also invite partner courts to provide feedback and suggestions for continual improvement.

Downloading Toolkits

Please note: depending on the version of Microsoft Office that you are using, some graphics or diagrams in the toolkits may not be shown correctly when documents are opened in Word (.doc) format. For fixed versions of the toolkits and additional resources, please use the PDF versions.

• Access to Justice Assessment Toolkit (pdf - 292.5 kb) | (doc - 249.8 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.6 mb) | (doc - 1.3 mb)
  
  
• Public Information Toolkit (pdf - 2.4 mb) | (doc - 7.5 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 3.2 mb) | (doc - 3 mb)
  
  
• Enabling Rights & Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit (pdf - 1.3 mb) | (doc - 2.4 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.7 mb) | (doc - 4.9 mb)
  Annex 3: Court Guidance for Unrepresented Litigants & Explanatory Note (pdf – 387 kb) | (doc – 119kb)
  
  
• Judge's Orientation Toolkit (pdf - 763.1 kb) | (doc - 745 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 472.8 kb) | (doc - 215.6 kb)
  Sample PowerPoint Presentations (pdf - 2.6 mb) | (doc - 2.5 mb)
  
  
• Training-of-Trainers (ToT) Toolkit’) (pdf - 450 kb) | (doc - 359 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 293.5 kb) | (doc - 182.1 kb)
  
  
• Judicial Conduct Toolkit (pdf - 562.5 kb) | (doc - 1.5 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 335.8 kb) | (doc - 207.6 kb)
  
  
• Family Violence and Youth Justice Workshops Toolkit (pdf - 203.9 kb) | (doc - 207.5 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.5 mb) | (doc - 2.3 mb)
  
  
• Time Goals Toolkit (pdf - 531 kb) | (doc - 502 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 2.5 mb) | (doc - 4.4 mb)
  
  
• Judicial Decision-making Toolkit (pdf - 280.1 kb) | (doc - 439.1 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1 mb) | (doc - 2.0 mb)
  
  
• Reducing Backlog and Delay Toolkit (pdf - 508 kb) | (doc - 492 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 3.0 mb) | (doc - 7.5 mb)
• Judicial Complaints Handling Toolkit (pdf - 336.4 kb) | (doc - 390.0 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 174.2 kb) | (doc - 167.3 kb)
  
  
• Annual Court Reporting Toolkit (pdf - 978 kb) | (doc - 901 kb)
  Annex 1: Workshop Objectives, Session Outlines and Programme (pdf - 84.5 kb) | (doc - 44.8 kb)
  Annex 2: PowerPoint Presentation (ppt - 3.5 mb) | (pdf - 1.8 mb)
  Annex 3: Annual Report Planning Template (pdf - 318.3 kb) | (doc - 53.7 kb)
  Annex 4: Annual Report Template (pdf - 259.7 kb) | (doc - 414.6 kb)
  Annex 5: Chart Creator Excel Template (xls - 107.0 kb)
  Annex 6: Chart Creator Step-by-Step Guide (pdf - 1.5 mb) | (doc - 3.0 mb)
  Annex 7: Guide to making charts for an annual report (pdf - 5.8 mb) | (doc - 5.7 mb)
  Annex 8: Client Satisfaction Survey Example (pdf - 93.4 kb) | (doc - 44.5 kb)
  Annex 9a: CourtTools Access and Fairness Implementation Guide (pdf - 494.9 kb)
  Annex 9b: CourtTools Access and Fairness Survey Template (xls - 312.5 kb)
  Annex 10: Indicator Questionnaire (pdf - 103.5 kb) | (doc - 38.6 kb)
  Annex 11: Data Collection for Family Law Cases and Violence Cases (pdf - 148.2 kb) | (doc - 46.3 kb)
  Annex 12: Tokelau Data Spreadsheet (xls - 21 kb)
  
  
• Project Management Toolkit (pdf - 4.9 mb) | (doc - 7.5 mb)
  Presentation Slides (pdf - 2.9 mb) | (doc - 5.2 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 810 kb) | (doc - 560 kb)
  
  
• National Judicial Development Committees Toolkit (pdf - 468.4 kb) | (doc - 413.7 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 379.1 kb) | (doc - 255.4 kb)