Annual Report 2016-17

Judicial Commission of NSW – Annual Report 2016–17 52 Results 2016–17 The public was informed about our role in the justice system to assist in promoting confidence in the judiciary: see p 55. We shared our accumulated knowledge and experience with emerging jurisdictions to promote the rule of law: see p 57. We collaborated with other judicial education providers to share resources and promote best practice: see p 57. The Commission provided contractual services to other jurisdictions to assist them to capture and use legal data: see p 58. We finalised the pilot Integrated Criminal Case System Database for the National and Supreme Courts of PNG: see p 58. Government law agencies had access to our online legal information to assist them in their daily work: see p 56. Challenge 2016–17 • Balancing our core work with requests for research and capacity-building projects. • Continue to actively participate with other national and international providers of continuing judicial education to share resources and promote best practice for judicial officers. • The Commission will participate in the International Organization for Judicial Training conference in Manila, the Philippines in November 2017. Participating in this conference allows the Commission to share knowledge gained from 30 years’ experience and apply world’s best practice to continuing judicial education programs in NSW. • We will introduce a new series of programs designed to educate the community about the role of a judicial officer, the courts and the Commission. • Continue our involvement with the Association for Continuing Legal Education Administrators (ACLEA) — an international body established to improve continuing legal education worldwide. Our Director, Education is the Immediate Past President of ACLEA. The year ahead 2017–18 • Continue to provide seminars and online information for high school students through the Rule of Law Institute as part of our community engagement strategy. • Work with NSW Young Lawyers to support their “Young Justice”, program for school students providing information on how the law works through a range of workshops and hypothetical scenarios. • The Lawcodes database will be adapted to generate all statistical information displayed on JIRS. The aim is to make redundant the need to maintain 3 separate databases, which will result in a significant saving of resources. Prominent image previous page: As part of the Land and Environment Court of NSW Annual Conference, a field trip was organised to the Australian Botanical Gardens at Mount Annan. The Curator Manager, Mr John Siemon (left), spoke to participants as they strolled through the Stolen Generations Memorial Walk.