Training is a continuous exercise in every department of an organisation. Judiciary is not an exception to it. To serve the litigants, it is necessary that adequate and timely training is provided to all stakeholders in the Judicial System.

1. ROLE OF TRAINING AND
DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
TALWANT SINGH
PRINCIPAL JUDGE
FAMILY COURT
DELHI (INDIA)

2. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
 Training and Development can help courts
improve court &justice system performance
and achieve their preferred future targets.
 Judicial branch education helps courts
maintain balance between the forces of
change and enduring principles and
predictable processes.

3. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Forces that will shape Society
and challenge the Judiciary
 Demographics and Population shifts
 Scientific Development
 Advances in Technology
 Resource Limitations
 Decreased Public Satisfaction and
Increased Public Expectations

4. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
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 Self-Represented Litigants
 Different and Expanded Services
 Resistance to change

5. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Training and Development must be:
 Continuous and Creative
 Inclusive
 Accessible and Tailored
 Well-managed
 Evaluated

6. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Training and Development
Core Competency Areas:
 Context and Vision
 Resource Development
 Adult Education Fundamentals
 Program Management
 Evaluation

7. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Context and Vision
 When context, vision, purpose focus on
training and define developmental needs,
educational resources are better targeted,
allocated, and managed.
 Court inspired collaboration and the strategic
inclusion of others in training enhances court
and justice system performance while
broadening judicial training resources.

8. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Resource Development
 Education and Training are investments
that pay dividends year after year.
 Untapped funding resources include the
budgets, staff, and programs of other
governmental branches, universities, the
private sector, foundations, partnerships,
entrepreneurial ventures and not-for-profit
organizations.

9. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Adult Education Fundamentals
 Adult education fundamentals include
needs assessment, learning objectives,
varied curriculum and program delivery
including
distance
learning,
faculty
selection,
preparation,
mentoring
&
evaluation.
 Understanding adult education assists court
leaders as they manage judicial branch
education departments & deliver programs

10. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Program Management
 Training and Development must be wellmanaged and aligned with the court, its
mission, vision, structures, and, very
importantly, its internal work-flows.
 Quality judicial branch education is more
likely when the court and its judicial
branch education programs are well
managed.

11. ROLE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
Evaluation
 Evaluation validates and values effort and
expenditures in relation to desired
organizational outcomes.
 Evaluation helps leaders and educators as
they establish priorities, allocate existing
and future resources, and seek to
maintain, if not increase, funding.

12. ROLE OF TRAINING AND
DEVELOPMENT IN COURTS
THANKS
TALWANT SINGH
PRINCIPAL JUDGE
FAMILY COURT
DELHI (INDIA)