National Conference of Judicial Academies on “Key Issues and Challenges in Judicial Education” Saturday, 25th October, 2014, Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore.
Registration: 08:30-09:00 a.m. Arrival of the Chief Guest: 09:00 a.m. Recitation from Holy Quran and National Anthem: 09:00-09:05 a.m. Welcome Address by the Director General: 09:05-09:15 a.m. Experience Sharing by the Director Generals of all the Judicial Academies and Registrars of AJK High Court and Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court: 09:15-09:45 a.m. Keynote Speech by the Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Senior Puisne Judge, Lahote High Court: 09:45-to 10:00 a.m. Participants and speakers shall assemble in their respective sessions Concurrent Session-I Concurrent Session-II Concurrent Session-III Concurrent Session-IV Chair: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shahid Waheed Chair: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan Chair: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh Chair: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah Co-Chair: Dr. Osama Siddique Co-Chair: Dr. Tariq Hassan Co-Chair: Mr. Azam Nazir Tarar, Advocate Supreme Court Co-Chair: Mr. Justice Syed Jamshed Ali Shah, Former Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan Curriculum & Course: Content & Design Faculty Development and Learning Innovation Information Technology, Research & Judicial Education in Modern Context Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Judicial Academies Networking Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Judicial Education: Planning and Design Professionalizing Judicial Education: Permanent ADR and role of Courts: A training Syed Khursheed Anwar Rizvi, DG, Punjab vs. Visiting and Judges vs. Non-Judges Judicial Role of IT in Judicial Education perspective Judicial Academy Educators TBD. Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Curriculum content and design Mr. Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Khan, Internet based judicial education: Hon’ble Judge Lahore High Court Dr. Khursheed Iqbal, Dean, KP Judicial Former Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan Possibilities Establishing and running a Mediation Academy Training of Trainers (ToT) Programs: Importance Mr. Imran M. Rabbani (PhD. Scholar), Center: Sharing of experience Teaching tools for adult learning: International and relevance Instructor IT, Punjab Judicial Academy, Mr. Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, best practices Dr. Geeta Oberoi, Professor, National Lahore. Former Chief Justice of Pakistan and Mr. William J. Brunson, Director Special Judicial Academy, Bhopal, India (Through Role of Research in Judicial Training presently Chairperson Karachi Center Projects, National Judicial College, Reno, Skype) Prof. Dr. Dil Muhammad Malik, Former for Dispute Resolution (KCDR), Karachi. Nevada, USA. (Through Skype) Judicial Education in Balochistan Dean of Law and Principal Punjab Designing ADR/Mediation program for Mr. Aftab Lone, DSJ/Actg: DG, Balochistan University Law College, Lahore Judges: Content Judicial Academy, Quetta Mr. Zafar Iqbal Kalanauri, Advocate Supreme Court
TEA BREAK (11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
Concurrent Session-I Concurrent Session-II Concurrent Session-III Concurrent Session-IV Curriculum & Course: Content & Design Faculty Development and Learning Innovation Information Technology, Research & Judicial Education in Modern Context Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Judicial Academies Networking Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Training needs assessment: A tool to develop and Social context judicial education: A new Judicial education in Islam improve curriculum perspective Social media and judicial education Mr. Justice Dr. Munir Ahmad Mughal, Dr. Faqir Hussain, DG, Federal Judicial Mr. Muhammad Amir Munir, programs: Innovating Learning Formerly Judge Lahore High Court and Academy Senior Civil Judge/ Senior Instructor, PJA Rai Muhammad Khan (PhD. Scholar), Member Council of Islamic Ideology Feedbacks and their role in improvement in Installing quality examination system: Defining Punjab Judicial Academy Design and content of Bench-books: Issues curriculum, course and modules performance indicators for the trainees Networking judicial education regime: Issues and challenges Dr. Osama Siddique, Mr. Hayat Ali Shah, DG, KP Judicial and Challenges Mr. Justice Shabbir Ahmed, Academy, Peshawar Syed Nasir Ali Shah, Director, PJA. Former Judge Sindh High Court Honorary DG, Sindh Judicial Academy Open House/ Panel Discussion and Formulation Open House/Panel Discussion and Formulation of Open House/Panel Discussion and of Group Recommendations Group Recommendations Formulation of Group Recommendations Open House/Panel Discussion and Formulation of Group Recommendations
Concluding Ceremony and presentation of Conference Declaration: Concluding Remarks by the Director General: 01:00 p.m. to 01:10 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Conference Declaration by the Chief Guest Hon’ble Mr Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik: 01:10 p.m. to 01:20 p.m. Distribution of Certificates: 01:20 p.m. to 01:30 p.m. Lunch and Prayer: 01:30 p.m. to 02:30 p.m. OBJECTIVES
This Conference is being organized by the Punjab Judicial Academy in continuation of First Pakistan Judicial Academy’s Summit held in the year 2011 at Sindh Judicial Academy. It was resolved that to continue this important event, the next activity shall be conducted by the Punjab Judicial Academy. As the PJA has planned a new vision of judicial education with a focus on training every judge every year through a general training program, therefore, it becomes imperative that the intricacies and innovations in adult learning are properly understood and applied for a quality judicial education regime. Equally important is to go deep into different operational sides of a judicial academy for seeking improvement in judicial education to remain competitive and relevant to the justice sector human resource training needs. By this exercise, raising the standards of judicial education will translate into a quality judicial education to judicial officers and court personnel and hence a quality justice delivery system will be ensured.
The main Objectives of this Conference are: To understand key issues in curriculum and course content and designing To highlight the issues and challenges in faculty development and learning innovation for better performance of faculty To realize the importance of information technology, research and judicial academies networking and To inculcate modern trends in judicial education regime for optimal performance
Keeping in view the above objectives, the Conference has been divided into four main sessions:
1. Curriculum & Course: Content & Design 2. Faculty Development and Learning Innovation 3. Information Technology, Research & Judicial Academies Networking 4. Judicial Education in Modern Context
The Session Objectives will be:
Session-I: Curriculum & Course: Content & Design To understand the issues in judicial education planning and design To know the science and art of curriculum content and design To highlight the importance of use of teaching tools in international context To consider using training needs assessment as a tool to improve curricula and courses To know the importance of feedbacks for improvement in curricula and courses
Session-II: Faculty Development and Learning Innovations To understand the nature of faculty for a judicial education institute To realize the importance of Training of Trainers (ToT) Programs To link up faculty development with learning innovations To sensitize the importance of imparting social context education for judiciary and the role of faculty To consider applying a quality examination system and development of performance indicators for trainees
Session-III: Information Technology, Research and Judicial Academies Networking To learn the role of IT in judicial education To explore internet based judicial education platforms To venture into computer assisted legal and judicial research techniques and tools To explore the power of social media for judicial education programs To understand the importance of networking judicial education bodies and sharing of knowledge, resources and faculty
Session-IV: Judicial Education in Modern Context To explore the ADR as a new tool for Courts To know the issues and challenges in establishing a Mediation Center in Judicial Academy To sensitize the judicial education bodies on the content of an ADR/Mediation program for judges To understand the Islamic perspective of judicial education and alternative modes of dispute resolution To consider preparing bench-books as a mode of judicial education for judges and magistrates etc.
This scheme is intended to facilitate the above core values to be discussed by experts for exploring the present to link it up with future. In depth research on these main themes will further help the judicial academies and other adult learning institutions to find out standards for measuring the performance of the institution. To achieve the target of having teaching methods of international standards, it is relevant that national experience are shared with each other for betterment of the individual institution’s performance and to make it a one whole.
Thus, the above mentioned four concurrent sessions will run to find out answers or options for the problems being faced in ach area for better and informed decision making process in raising judicial education standards in this Country. Each concurrent session is divided into five sub-topics for presentation of papers and deliberations on conclusions. The audience, the panelist and learned speakers will sit together to bring out recommendations of each session through a democratic process and open discussion. Sharing of views and reception to ideas will be the key features of each session.
The Conference declaration will be based on the collective group recommendations that will be presented in full-house at the time of concluding ceremony and, if approved, will be announced as “Judicial Education Declaration 2014”. There will be hopes for taking up the lamp of judicial education to the next destination for some other dimension that could not have been addressed in the Summit 2011 or the present Conference.