TRAINING the JUDICIAL TRAINERS
COURSE PROGRAMME
Part One
6 - 8 September 2014
Port of Spain, Trinidad
UCL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE
UCL Judicial Institute
The UCL Judicial Institute is the first and only centre of excellence for
research and teaching about the judiciary in the UK. The Institute’s
purpose is to provide evidence-based understanding and intellectual
leadership about the judiciary as a critical social institution and the
about the process of judicial decision-making. The Institute carries out
cutting-edge research on the judiciary and provides outstanding educational opportunities for students,
practitioners, judges and those performing quasi-judicial roles. The Judicial Institute is led by codirectors Professor Dame Hazel Genn and Professor Cheryl Thomas and guided by an Advisory Board of
distinguished jurists and scholars from both the United Kingdom and abroad.
UCL Judicial Institute Advisory Board
Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls of England and Wales
Lord Carnwath, Justice of the United Kingdom Supreme Court
Lady Hale, Justice of the United Kingdom Supreme Court
Lord Justice Jackson, Court of Appeal
Lord Justice MacFarlane, Court of Appeal
Sir John Goldring, Court of Appeal (retired)
Sir Stephen Sedley, Court of Appeal (retired)
Judge Antoine Garapon, Secretary-General, Institut des Haute Etudes sur la Justice (France)
Professor Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law University
Professor Richard Susskind, President of the Society for Computers and Law
Alexandra Marks, Commissioner, Judicial Appointments Commission of England & Wales
Further information on the Institute can be found at: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/judicial-institute
UCL Judicial Institute’s
Training the Judicial Trainers Course
Course Prospectus
Course Aims
The main aim of the course is to equip judges, court and judicial education officers with the knowledge
and skills necessary to be able to develop, design, deliver and evaluate appropriate training for judicial
and court colleagues. The course is designed for those individuals who are responsible for the development and delivery of training to judicial decision makers and court administrators. It is relevant for both
experienced trainers and those who are new to, or relatively inexperienced in, the judicial training role.
The underlying principle of this course is that judges and educators in any jurisdiction should be able to
create, deliver and evaluate their own judicial training curriculum. The UCL Judicial Institute believes that
judges and court officials in any country are best placed to understand the specific issues and challenges
they face in their own jurisdiction. This course is intended to equip participants with some of the key
skills and competences needed to develop and deliver effective judicial training in their own jurisdiction.
Course Structure
The course is in three parts. Part One runs over 3 days on site at the Trinidad and Tobago Judicial
Education Institute. It reflects the training process from the initial identification of training needs,
through the design and delivery of training, to the subsequent evaluation of a session or course.
Sessions in Part One include:
•identification of judicial training needs
•different adult learning styles
•setting training aims and learning outcomes
•deciding upon the form, content and methodology of training, including e-learning
•producing training materials
•integrating fair treatment into training
•delivering effective training in a variety of ways
•evaluating the effectiveness of training
Part One is highly participatory, with many opportunities for all Participants to engage in discussions,
small group exercises and role-play. During Part One all Participants (working in groups) will be asked to
prepare a short (10 minute) presentation on a specific judicial training session about a topic relevant to
the judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago, and to deliver a presentation of this proposed training session on
the final day of Part One of the course.
Part Two of the course will take place on-line from the end of the 3-day course in September 2014
through March 2015. During this period Participants, working in 8 groups of three, will design and test
proposals for 8 new judicial training sessions for the judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago. This will involve
continued dialogue and constructive feedback between Participants and Course Facilitators via the UCL
e-learning system eXtend. This will enable Participants to carry out written exercises, download and upload documents, submit drafts of materials for proposed training sessions, access a resource “library” for
adult learning and judicial training, share their experience of the course with each other and provide the
UCL Training Team with feedback through an online discussion forum.
Part Three of the course will run over 2-days on-site in Trinidad in April 2015. Participants will present
their 8 new proposed judicial training sessions in full, and put their sessions through a detailed
assessment based on the core principles covered in Part One and developed in Part Two of the course.
PART ONE: 6-8 September 2014
Learning Outcomes
By the end of Part One of the course, participants will have:
• explored different approaches to adult learning and teaching
• gained an understanding of the need to use different techniques for different types of judicial subjects and training sessions
• identified a number of ways to deliver training that is focused, interactive, imaginative, engaging
and effective
• gained an understanding of the importance of teamwork when individuals must co-operate to
complete time-sensitive tasks
• worked as a member of a small group to fulfil a pre-determined task
• recognised the significance of a judicial training needs analysis
• gained an understanding of the importance of setting clear aims and learning outcomes
• set aims and learning outcomes for a judicial training session
• gained an understanding of the importance of judicial training evaluation
• gained an understanding of the need to integrate diversity and fair treatment issues into judicial
training sessions and identified ways to achieve this
Developing Training Sessions and Courses
During Part One, all Participants, working in a small group, will design a short judicial training session
drawing on the new knowledge and skills acquired so far. These training sessions will be presented to
all course Participants on Day 3. These presentations will enable the course Participants to demonstrate
the new knowledge, skills and techniques learnt, discussed and practised during Part One of the course.
These and other short training sessions will be further developed in Parts Two and Three of the course,
with the ultimate goal of enabling new training sessions or courses to be created, run and evaluated by
the Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute.
UCL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE
Training The Judicial Trainers Course
PART ONE: 6-8 September 2014
Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute
Port of Spain, Trinidad
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DAY 1
Saturday 6 September 2014
CORE ELEMENTS OF JUDICIAL TRAINING
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08:00 - 08:30
Registration
08:30
Welcome and Introductions
Plenary Room
08:30 - 08:45
Welcome and Introduction to the Course
Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute
Professor Dame Hazel Genn and Professor Cheryl Thomas
08:45 - 09:00
Group introductions
Group Facilitators: Mary Holmes, Stuart Vernon, Professor Dame Hazel Genn
SESSION 1
Training experiences, concerns and goals
09:00 - 10:00
Plenary Room
Professor Cheryl Thomas
10:00 - 10:15
Health break
SESSION 2
10:15 – 11:00
Judges as Adult Learners
Plenary Room
Mary Holmes and Professor Cheryl Thomas
SESSION 3
Judicial Training Cycle and Needs Analysis
11:00 – 11:45 Plenary Room
Professor Cheryl Thomas
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
SESSION 4
Learning Outcomes
13:00 - 13:10
Introduction to Learning Outcomes
Plenary Room
Mary Holmes
13:10 - 13:30
Including Fair Treatment in Learning Outcomes
Plenary Room
The Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE
13:30 - 15:00
Setting Learning Outcomes for Day 3 Presentations
Breakout Rooms
Course Facilitators: Mary Holmes, Stuart Vernon and Professor Dame Hazel Genn
15:00 - 15:15
Health break
SESSION 5 Evaluation of Judicial Training
15:15 - 16:00
Plenary Room
Group Facilitators: Stuart Vernon, Mary Holmes and Professor Dame Hazel Genn
SESSION 6:
Day 1 Review and Feedback
16:00 - 16:15
Plenary Room
Professor Dame Hazel Genn and Professor Cheryl Thomas
Reception
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DAY 2
Sunday 7 September 2014
METHODS & TECHNIQUES IN JUDICIAL TRAINING
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SESSION 7
On-Line Learning
08:30 – 10:30
Plenary Room
Professor Cheryl Thomas and Maria Diaz
10:30 – 10:45
Health break
SESSION 8
Presentation Skills and Training Tools
10:45 - 11:30 Presentation Skills
Plenary
Stuart Vernon
11:30 - 12:00 (Concurrent Sessions - Participants choose one to attend)
Using Powerpoint
Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Using Surveys and Voting Tools
Professor Cheryl Thomas
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
SESSION 9 13:00 - 15:45
Small Group Working
Breakout Rooms
Group Facilitators: Mary Holmes, Stuart Vernon, Professor Dame Hazel Genn
15:45 - 16:00
Health break
SESSION 10 Day 2 Review & Feedback
16:00 - 16:15 Plenary Room
Professor Dame Hazel Genn and Professor Cheryl Thomas
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DAY 3
Monday 8 September 2014
DESIGNING & DELIVERING A JUDICIAL TRAINING SESSION
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SESSION 11
Designing a Judicial Training Session
08:30 - 08:45
Day 3 Plan
Plenary Room
Stuart Vernon
08:45 – 12:00
Designing a Training Session: Preparing Presentations
Breakout Rooms
Group Facilitators: Mary Holmes, Stuart Vernon and Professor Dame Hazel Genn
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
SESSION 12 Group Presentations of Proposed Training Sessions
13:00 - 14:15
Plenary Room
Course Participants: Groups 1, 2 and 3
14:15 – 14:30
Health break
SESSION 13
Critiquing the Presentations
14:30 - 15:30
Breakout Rooms
Group Facilitators and Maria Diaz
SESSION 14 Next Steps: Part Two & Part Three of the Course
15:30 - 16:00
Plenary Room
Professor Dame Hazel Genn and Professor Cheryl Thomas
SESSION 15
Final Review & Feedback
16:00 – 16:30
Plenary Room
UCL JI Training Team
Close of Part One
COURSE PARTICIPANTS
6-8 September 2014
Port of Spain, Trinidad
UCL Judicial Institute
Professor Dame Hazel Genn Course Director
Professor Cheryl ThomasCourse Director
Mrs Mary HolmesCourse Facilitator
Mr Stuart VernonCourse Facilitator
Ms Maria DiazCourse Administrator
Guest Contributor
The Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE
Trinidad and Tobago Course Participants
The Hon Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ivor Archie
The Hon Mr Justice Peter Jamadar JA
The Hon Mme Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon JA
The Hon Mr Justice Gregory Smith JA
The Hon Mr Justice Malcolm Holdip
The Hon Mr Justice Andre des Vignes
The Hon Mr Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh
The Hon Mr Justice Vasheist Kokaram
The Hon Mme Justice Charmaine Pemberton
The Hon Mme Justice Maria Wilson
The Hon Mme Justice Judith Jones
The Hon Mme Justice Sandra Paul
The Hon Mr Justice Robin Mohammed
Her Worship Mrs Marcia Ayers-Caesar
Her Worship Mrs Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds
Her Worship Mrs Nalini Singh
Ms Marissa Robertson
Ms Jade Rodriguez
Mrs Magaret Sookraj-Goswami
Ms Jennifer Leach
Mr Recarb Ali
Ms Janille James
Mr Kent Jardine
Ms Kamla Braithwaite
Chief Justice, Court of Appeal
Court of Appeal
Court of Appeal
Court of Appeal
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Supreme Court
High Court, Family Court
High Court, Supreme Court
Chief Magistrate, St. George West Magistrates’ Court
Magistrate, San Fernando Magistrates’ Court
Magistrate, Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court
Master of the High Court, Supreme Court
Acting Registrar, Supreme Court
Assistant Registrar, Family Court
Manager, Court Reporting Services
Planning Unit Director, King’s Court
Court Human Resource Officer
Judicial Educator, Judicial Education Institute
Judicial Research Assistant
COURSE DIRECTORS
Professor Dame Hazel Genn is Dean of the UCL Faculty of Laws and Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute.
She is also an Honorary Fellow at UCL. She is a leading authority on civil and administrative justice, conducting
numerous empirical studies of court and tribunal processes and publishing widely in her specialist fields.
In 2006 Dame Hazel was appointed an Inaugural Commissioner to the England & Wales Judicial Appointments
Commission (established under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) and served on the Commission from 20062011 appointing judiciary at all levels including to the Court of Appeal and UK Supreme Court. She was a
member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 2003-7 and in April 2009 she was appointed to the Secretary
of State’s Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity. She has had a longstanding involvement with the Judicial
Studies Board (now Judicial College) serving on its main board and tribunals committee, developing and
delivering training to the judiciary at all levels in England, Wales and Scotland. Dame Hazel has undertaken
training needs analyses of the judiciary in England, Wales and Scotland and is currently undertaking an audit of
Scottish judicial training. Between 2006 and 2009 she led a major learning needs analysis for the Judicial Studies
Board involving the judiciary on the District and Circuit Benches as well as the High Court. Drawing on this work
she developed the Judicial College’s Framework of Judicial Abilities and Qualities published in November 2010
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/framework-of-judicial-abilities-and-qualities/ which has been adopted
in other jurisdictions. Dame Hazel is a frequent lecturer at judicial conferences around the world, including recent
contributions to judicial conferences in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Professor Cheryl Thomas is Professor of Judicial Studies and Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute. She is also
the Vice Dean (Research) in the UCL Faculty of Laws and Director of the UCL Jury Project. She was appointed to the
first chair in judicial studies in the United Kingdom in 2010. Professor Thomas is the UK’s leading expert on juries
and has pioneered the study of judicial decision-making in the courts in the UK. A specialist in judicial studies, she
has conducted ground-breaking research in the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions on the appointment and
training of judges, judicial decision-making and the role of diversity in the justice system. She has also established
the UCL UK Supreme Court (UKSC) and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) Project at the UCL Judicial
Institute, a large-scale database and long-term longitudinal study of UKSC and JCPC decision-making, designed to
inform discussion about best practice in these two courts. Professor Thomas is a regular contributor to the Criminal
Courts courses provided by the Judicial College of England and Wales. She has also been actively involved in the
training and education of judges at the European level, where she developed the Judicial Education Assessment Tool
(JEAT) for the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice CEPEJ, served on the European Commission Menu
for Justice project to develop a European-wide curriculum in judicial studies, and currently serves on the EU
Steering Committee for the Project on European Judicial Training. She has served as a specialist consultant on
judicial affairs to the UK Ministry of Justice, Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity, Her Majesty’s
Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSi), former
Commission for Judicial Appointments and the Council of Europe GRECO (Group of States Against Corruption).
COURSE ADMINISTRATOR
Maria Diaz is the Manager of the UCL Judicial Institute. She is responsible for the overall running of the Judicial
Institute including its courses and events. Maria joined the UCL Judicial Institute in 2013 following a 10-year career
in the UK civil service, working in the courts and judiciary. She joined the Lord Chancellor’s Department in 2003
working at the office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) as a pre-trial clerk. In 2006 she joined the Court Service
in the Listings and Jury Bailiffs department at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey). In 2008 she became a Court
Clerk and then the Jury Manager of the Old Bailey, also serving on the Jury Manager’s Advisory Group (JMAG) for
England and Wales.
COURSE FACILITATORS
Mary Holmes is a UCL Judicial Institute Training and Education Fellow. She was formally the Senior Training
Adviser to the Judicial Studies Board (JSB, now the Judicial College of England and Wales). Mary advised the
Civil, Family and Equal Treatment Committees in respect of the induction and continuation training for judges
and was closely involved in the development of the JSB tribunal training standards and training handbooks.
Mary has delivered training for Sheriffs in the Mental Health Tribunals in Scotland, Tribunal Chairmen and Members in Guernsey, Training the Trainers for family law judges in Jordan and facilitated appraisal training for British
Columbia’s Administrative Tribunal in Vancouver, Canada. She worked with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
in Australia to develop proposals for the introduction of its competence framework, which was used as the basis
for the development of competence based training. Mary was previously a legal academic and tribunal member
and currently sits as a Magistrate.
Stuart Vernon is a UCL Judicial Institute Training and Education Fellow. Prior to this Stuart provided judicial
skills training for the Judicial Studies Board (JSB, now the Judicial College of England and Wales) for many years,
and he now designs and delivers bespoke training for a range of quasi-judicial decision makers. Most recently this has involved work with the Crofting Commission in Scotland, the Intellectual Property Office in Wales,
Welsh local authorities responsible for adjudication under the Estate Agents Act, and decision making skills
training for the States of Guernsey. Stuart was previously Chief Adjudicator at the Office of Fair Trading where
he was responsible for decision making under the licensing provisions of the Consumer Credit Act and on the
fitness of estate agents. Prior to this civil service appointment, Stuart taught in the Law School at the University
of East London, publishing in the fields of social work law, youth justice and disability and the law.
Yvette Genn is a UCL Judicial Institute Training and Education Fellow. She is a practicing barrister at Cloisters, a
specialist in employment law (with particular emphasis on discrimination and equal pay) and personal injury law.
Yvette is also a Deputy District Judge of England and Wales on the South Eastern circuit, and a Recorder in civil and
private law family matters on the Midland circuit. She is also a former part-time judge in the Special Educational Needs
and Disability Tribunal. She was a member of the JSB’s Equal Treatment Advisory Committee from 1999-2008, designing
and providing diversity training to judges, and she continues to provide training in diversity and judicial standards for
judges in courts and tribunals. She has also provided equalities training to a range of public bodies such as the Legal
Services Commission, Council on Tribunals and Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
Godfrey Cole is a UCL Judicial Institute Training and Education Fellow. He was an academic from 1971-1992,
mostly at the University of Westminster where he was Dean of the Law School and he lectured on subjects including
Housing Law, Law of Landlord and Tenant, Family Law, and Social Security Law. In 1992 he took up a full-time judicial
appointment as a District Tribunal Judge, and subsequently sat as a Deputy District Judge and in the Upper Tribunal.
From 1999-2008 he was seconded to the Judicial Studies Board as Director of Training for Tribunals where he
developed standards that now apply across UK tribunals, as well as training courses for court and tribunal judges
with management responsibilities. He was the editor of the Tribunals journal until the end of 2009, and he has
published frequently as an academic and as a judge.
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
The Hon Dame Linda Dobbs was appointed to the High Court Bench in 2004, becoming the first non-white high
court judge in the UK. There she held a number of positions including, Senior Liaison Judge for Diversity, Chair of the
Magisterial Committee and International Committees of the Judicial College. Dame Linda is a contributing and
consultant editor to a number of legal publications and has been involved in the training of lawyers and judges both
in the UK and internationally for over 20 years. She holds 5 honorary doctorates. She is a patron of a number of
charities in the UK and Africa and sits on several advisory councils. In 2013 Dame Linda stepped down from the
Bench to pursue her various interests, including the training of judges and lawyers internationally, in particular in
the Caribbean and Africa and in the area of commercial mediation.
About the UCL Judicial Institute
The UCL Judicial Institute (JI) is the UK’s first and only centre of excellence
devoted to research, teaching and policy engagement on the judiciary.
The judiciary is effectively the third branch of government. Today, a wide
range of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies have adjudicatory powers
affecting the lives of citizens as well as the commercial sector.
As the only centre for Judicial Studies in the UK, the UCL Judicial Institute is devoted to:
• cutting-edge research on the judiciary that has a high policy impact
• high-level policy work on courts and the judiciary in both the UK and Europe
• teaching that brings students in direct contact with judges and policy-makers
• expert seminars addressing key issues facing judges and courts worldwide
• professional development courses to increase understanding of the judiciary
• publications and scholarship on the judiciary from home and abroad
• public events and expert commentary in the media on judicial issues.
Research
The UCL Judicial Institute research programme is designed to provide robust empirical evidence about
the judicial process. Major current research projects include the: UK Supreme Court and Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council Project, Tribunal Decision-Making Project, UCL Jury Project and Civil
Justice Reform Project.
Teaching
The JI is pioneering educational programmes at all levels to increase understanding of the judiciary.
This includes innovative LLM teaching on the judiciary, Europe’s first Executive Masters in Judicial
Studies, Professional Development Courses educating legal practitioners in the UK about life as a judge
and judicial education and training programmes for judiciaries in other jurisdictions.
Policy input and public debate
The UCL JI is committed to assisting the development of judicial policies through empirical research and
by providing a high-level forum for policy discussions between judges, academics and policy-makers.
This includes UCL JI public seminars and the UCL JI special policy briefings under the Chatham House
Rule.
Professional development
The Judicial lnstitute offers professional development courses for practicing lawyers in the UK and for
judiciaries abroad. Some of these courses are designed to fulfil the recommendations of the Neuberger
Panel on educating practitioners about the judiciary prior to applying for judicial posts, while others
provide practitioners and judges with new skills and understanding of judicial functions.
International
The UCL JI provides Fellowships to leading international experts on the judiciary and sabbaticals for
judges from around the world. The Directors serve as UK representative on leading European and
international projects on the judiciary, and the Institute conducts innovative comparative research on
key issues involving judges and courts.
For further information on the Institute please go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/judicial-institute
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