Handbook of Best Practice for Registrars of Final/Appellate, Regional and International Courts and Tribunals

This user-friendly, practical handbook is designed to assist Registrars in the day-to-day performance of their duties, thereby contributing to improving the administration and efficiency of final/appellate, regional and international courts and tribunals.
The handbook is divided into four sections: institutional matters; information and document management; the needs of court and tribunal users; and eradicating inefficiencies and abuses of process. It provides examples of good practice to help Registrars benefit from the challenges faced by other courts and tribunals, throughout the Commonwealth and worldwide.
The handbook is divided into four sections: institutional matters; information and document management; the needs of court and tribunal users; and eradicating inefficiencies and abuses of process. It provides examples of good practice to help Registrars benefit from the challenges faced by other courts and tribunals, throughout the Commonwealth and worldwide.
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Information and Document Management
Information and document management can be extremely expensive and, as such, it is essential to undertake a robust review of any existing manual systems before embarking upon the purchase and installation of a technology-based system. The road to an effective IT-based system has often been littered with expensive wrecks: either the base manual system has been imperfect and not conducive to being mechanised and/or a court administrator has gone ahead with an inappropriate system after having been ‘promised the world’ by an IT company’s slick sales pitch.
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