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Who should attend?
- Members of the judiciary of all grades
- Prosecutors
- Trainee judges and prosecutors
- Court clerks
- Legal and administrative personnel of tribunals
- Counsels of States
- Legislative drafters
- Members of Parliament participating in legislative drafting committees
Training content
Week 1: Judicial reasoning
- Explore ‘What’ the ‘Law’ should mean to you
- Legal, moral and justicial facets explained
- Why the nature of law evolves, its significance to society, and how big data drivers will drive future law-making
- Legislative interpretation
- Applied legislation for interpretation – Persons of legislative interpretations (PLIs)
- Techniques for developing and evidencinga reasoned argument
- Rebuttable v. non-rebuttable presumptions
- Judicial precedent v. freedom to exercise judicial discretion: scoping and limitations
- The base for logical reasoning
- The aspects of judicial reasoning
- The relationships and roles of parliaments and courts
- Reasoning techniques to reach decisions
- The ‘neighbour’ principle as outlined by Lord Atkin
- Internal and external justification of conclusions of law – dictum justifications
- Use v. misuse of deduction
Week 2: Prosecutorial reasoning
- Why become a ‘Prosecutor’
- What Prosecutors Do and Do Not Do
- Interests, skills and characteristics of a Prosecutor
- The structure of the Interview Process that Interviewers Look For
- Common hypothetical questions
- The character of a ‘Prosecutor’ – how to develop one
- Statutory background and normative forces
- Powers and limitations
- Discretion and its maximum limits
- Legality v. illegality
- Ideology
- Criminological skills
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Inertia
- Role ambiguity
- Systemic oversight and confidential investigations management skills
- Internal checks
- Prosecutions in rem and in personam
- Adaptive management
- Disempowerment
- Role specification
- Court prosecutorial skills
Certification / Credits
- Enhance the ability to engage ‘critically’ and logically in judicial reasoning
- Develop the skills to articulate sound legal arguments
- Strengthen the understanding of the moral, social and political aspects of legal reasoning
- Understand the relationship between statutes and cases
- Appreciate the role of Judges and Human Rights
- In-depth understanding of the role of rights in administrative, civil and criminal justice processes
- Understand the substantive role and constitutional position of judges
- Master judicial approaches to statutory interpretation and the influence of international instruments on those approaches
- Gain an in-depth appreciation of the fundamental elements of the rule of law, and the significance of fairness and justice in social and legal systems
- Identify rapidly key issues in cases and be able to summarise key points succinctly, accurately and with high impact
- Strengthen legal research skills using primary and secondary sources
- Kolb’s Adult Learning Styles Model
- Respond coherently to challenging questions about the law by the use of legal referencing
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We have trained over 2,500 delegates from almost 600 client organisations
Complimentary Heathrow transfer (one-way)
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