Courts and Global Civil Society

Role & Function of Courts and Tribunals

• Court administration

• Future of courts

• Relationship of courts with government

• Responsibility for court administration

• Independence of the judiciary

• Distinguishing courts from tribunals - to be developed

• Dispute resolution: roles of courts, tribunals and ADR - to be developed

Managing Courts and Tribunals

Coontz, P, ‘Gender and Judicial Decisions: Do Female Judges Decide Cases Differently than Male Judges?’ 1 November 2000, Gender Issues Vol.18 No.4, 59-73

Richard Mohr and Sandra Lloyd (eds). Delivering with Diversity. Proceedings of a Seminar held at the Centre for Court Policy and Administration, 13 June 1996. Wollongong: Centre for Court Policy & Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong.

Contributors discuss the response of justice administrators, judges and court managers to a diverse and multicultural society, including social movements, immigrant cultures and people with disabilities.

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Kevin M. Esterling. 'Public Outreach' Judicature 82 (3) Nov-Dec 1998 112-117.

A consideration of court outreach programs.

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The Hon Justice Robert D Nicholson, The People's Court? Technology and the Courts in the Region (2002) 12(2) Journal of Judicial Administration 63-84

Justice Nicholson discusses the eCourt system in the Federal Court of Australia and electronic filing in the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Professor Arie Freiberg, Problem-Oriented Courts: Innovative Solutions to Intractable Problems (2001) 11(1) Journal of Judicial Administration 8-27

Prof Freiberg discusses specialist courts like the drug court, mental health and domestic violence courts, and describes them as moving away from a focus on individuals and their criminal conduct to focus on examination of offenders' problems and solutions to them.

Anne Wallace, Courts on-line: Public Access to the Electronic Court Record (2000) 10(2) Journal of Judicial Administration 94-120

Issues of privacy and access to electronic court records are discussed.

The Hon Edward J Schoenbaum, Improving Public Trust and Confidence in Administrative Adjudication: What an Administrative Law Judge Can Do (2001) 21 National Administrative Law Journal 1

Quintin Johnstone, The Hartford Community Court: An Experiment that has Succeeded (2001) 34 Conn L Rev 123

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