The Senior Courts of Belize Judicial Education Institute to host Training Seminars on Judicial Settlement Conferences on 30th September 2024 and Criminal Mediation on 2nd – 6th October 2024

Posted: Friday, September 27, 2024. 4:19 pm CST.

Press Release

Honourable Chief Justice, Madame Louise Esther Blenman of the Senior Courts of Belize and, President of the Judicial Education Institute announces a series of critical training seminars on Judicial Settlement Conferences and Criminal Mediation aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the judicial system. These training seminars are aligned with the CCJ Academy for Law Needham’s Point Declaration, the Senior Courts of Belize Strategic Narrative, and the recommendations from the Criminal Justice Board.

On 30th September 2024, the Judicial Education Institute will host a training seminar on Judicial Settlement Conferences facilitated by the distinguished Hon. Mr. Justice of Appeal Vasheist Kokaram of the Court of Appeal of the Judiciary of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Hon. Mr. Justice of Appeal Kokaram is renowned for his expertise and experience in mediation, and judicial settlement conferences, having provided extensive training across the Caribbean.

The training on Judicial Settlement Conferences is specifically tailored for judges, registrars, judicial assistants, and members of the Bar Association of Belize, to equip them with the skills for efficiently resolving disputes, avoiding lengthy trials and reducing the backlog of civil cases. To date, over eighty (80) persons have registered for the training. Judicial Settlement Conferences are facilitated by a settlement judge who acts as a mediator for matters assigned to another judge.

Following this, from the 2nd to the 6th of October 2024, the Judicial Education Institute will hold a training seminar on Criminal Mediation which is also judge-driven. In this case, judges will conduct the mediation of criminal cases. The Criminal Mediation training is sponsored by the European Union and the United Nations Programme Development PACE Justice

Project.

The intensive Criminal Mediation training is unprecedented in Belize and will be facilitated by Dr. Christopher Malcolm and Mr. Burchell James of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad. The participants will include the criminal division judges, magistrates, attorneys at law, and mediators. The training aims to introduce participants to mediation in criminal matters and the best practices as well as to tool participants with the skills for expediting case resolution and backlog reduction in the criminal justice system in Belize. By incorporating mediation in the criminal justice process, it will enhance access to justice, shorten legal proceedings and create a more responsive court system.

Hon. Chief Justice Madame Louise Esther Blenman and the Judicial Education Institute emphasise the significance of these training seminars in reducing case backlogs and empowering stakeholders of the Senior Courts of Belize with the latest knowledge and tools to ensure justice is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

 

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