Programme Conference of the German Judges’ Academy draws up ambitious position paper on judicial training
Between June 2011 and June 2012, a working group commissioned by the Programme Conference of the German Judges’ Academy developed an 80-page position paper on the question “What constitutes good training?”. The paper, which was unanimously adopted by the Programme Conference in Wiesbaden in early June 2012, analyses the life cycle of good judicial training across six chapters, ranging from the assessment of training needs through the planning of the annual programme and individual conferences to quality assurance following the completion of training measures. The analysis culminates in 36 programmatic theses outlining the German Judges’ Academy’s overall strategy; while many of these reflect the predominantly very good status quo, an equally large number are intended to chart the path towards even better and more efficient training for judges and public prosecutors at the German Judges’ Academy. The position paper, which was published in September 2012 in a professional print version with the assistance of Diez Prison and in November 2012 under the title “What Constitutes Good Further Training?” in an equally modern English-language version – translated under the leadership of the Language Service of the Federal Ministry of Justice – is rounded off by a comprehensive appendix. Here, readers can find out, above all, about the legal framework of the German Judges’ Academy. The administrative agreement between the Federal Government and the Länder on the German Judges’ Academy of 1 March 1993 is reproduced here, as is the comprehensive collection of formal resolutions from the Programme Conference of the German Judges’ Academy.
Both the German and English versions of the paper, which have met with great interest from those responsible for judicial training in Germany and abroad since their publication, can be opened as PDF documents by clicking on the relevant link on the right-hand side and then studied.
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Programme Conference of the German Judges’ Academy draws up ambitious position paper on judicial training
Between June 2011 and June 2012, a working group commissioned by the Programme Conference of the German Judges’ Academy developed an 80-page position paper on the question “What constitutes good training?”. The paper, which was unanimously adopted by the Programme Conference in Wiesbaden in early June 2012, analyses the life cycle of good judicial training across six chapters, ranging from the assessment of training needs through the planning of the annual programme and individual conferences to quality assurance following the completion of training measures. The analysis culminates in 36 programmatic theses outlining the German Judges’ Academy’s overall strategy; while many of these reflect the predominantly very good status quo, an equally large number are intended to chart the path towards even better and more efficient training for judges and public prosecutors at the German Judges’ Academy. The position paper, which was published in September 2012 in a professional print version with the assistance of Diez Prison and in November 2012 under the title “What Constitutes Good Further Training?” in an equally modern English-language version – translated under the leadership of the Language Service of the Federal Ministry of Justice – is rounded off by a comprehensive appendix. Here, readers can find out, above all, about the legal framework of the German Judges’ Academy. The administrative agreement between the Federal Government and the Länder on the German Judges’ Academy of 1 March 1993 is reproduced here, as is the comprehensive collection of formal resolutions from the Programme Conference of the German Judges’ Academy.
Both the German and English versions of the paper, which have met with great interest from those responsible for judicial training in Germany and abroad since their publication, can be opened as PDF documents by clicking on the relevant link on the right-hand side and then studied.
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