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December 19, 2011
Justices Development Committee December 2011
The Development Committee of the SJA met on Tuesday 6th December 2011. Susan Kirkwood was reappointed to the Chair and Bob Mitchell became secretary. The committee reviewed its remit and explored some of the challenges that lie ahead. These included attempting to make access to the Judicial Intranet and SJA website less daunting to those members reluctant to use them, exploring how the committee could contribute to Justices personal development and the need to make JSC learning materials more accessible to individual Justices. The proposed dates of the two 2012 National Training Conferences were noted. It was felt that a 5 year training cycle did not accurately reflect the training needs of individual Justices and ways of identifying these were discussed.
September 12, 2011
Justices Development Committee
The Justices Development Committee met on 12 September 2011 in Edinburgh. Feedback from the survey report “Working Together - the Justice of the Peace and the Legal Adviser” was considered. The committee and the JP raining Consultant discussed the work being undertaken by the JSC, and in particular plans for the 2012 national conference. The content of the Judicial Intranet and the difficulties for JPs in using it were also discussed and suggestions made.
The remit of the committee was discussed and a draft will be submitted to the November meeting of the SJA Executive. Suggestions of topics for future meetings with SCS, COPFS and SLAB were also made.
The provisional date for the next meeting of the committee is 6 December 2011.
May 2, 2011
The Justices Development Committee of the Scottish Justices Association met on 18 April 2011 in Glasgow. Members considered the results from the survey relating to the investigation of the JP/Legal Adviser relationship and the proposed draft report. They also discussed a number of training and related matters.
October 1, 2010
Justices Development Committee 13 September 2010
The Justices Development Committee of the Scottish Justices Association met on 13 September 2010. Members were updated on a number of training and related matters (including progress on revision of Bench Book and Signing Manual) by Gillian Mawdsley, JP consultant to JSC. They also made further progress with the proposed investigation into the Justice/Legal Adviser relationship by confirming the final shape of the questionnaire and the accompanying letter for submission to the executive. Among other topics discussed were: the model format for local JP consultative forums agreed between Dumbarton court and SCS, and the future provision of appraiser training.
September 2, 2010
Executive Committee 2 September 2010
The Executive Committee met on 2nd September 2010
August 2, 2010
Communications Committee 15 July 2010
Report of recent meeting
May 20, 2010
The Executive Committee met on 20th May 2010 in Edinburgh. The committee received reports of the discussions at the SCS/SJA Liaison committee and other meetings where the association was represented. The progress of proposed SJA questionnaire of members looking at good practice in the courts was considered.
It was agreed that the AGM of the association will be held on Saturday 30th October in the
Edinburgh Sheriff Court.The next meeting of the SJA executive will be on Thursday 2nd September in Edinburgh.
April 15, 2010
Communications Committee 15 April 2010
The SJA Communications Committee held their tenth meeting on 15 April 2010 The last and next issues of the newsletter were discussed, as was the information pack to be issued to new justices. It was agreed to have a 6 month pilot of monthly emails to all members.
March 17, 2010
Executive Committee 17 March 2010
Pilot Justice Forums are being set up in North Strathclyde and SSDG with SCS regulations determining how they will be established and will operate. Pilots will run for 6 months and the format may be extended throughout Scotland.
The next meeting of the SJA executive will be on 20th May in Edinburgh.
February 4, 2010
Justices Development Committee
The Justices Development Committee met on 4 February 2010 in the Sheriff Court Building in Edinburgh. Much of the time was taken up considering the two matters referred to the committee by the executive:· Review the Legal Advisor/JP relationship
· Review the JP working environment.
It also heard of progress being made towards the establishment of a local forum for justices in discussions with SCS in relation to one court and considered the possible extension of the model beyond that sheriffdom.
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