JTI staff attended a retreat aimed at training and equipping them with skills of minute taking, change management, report writing and rapporteuring. The training which ran from July30 to August 4 in Mombasa also engaged participants in team building and excursion activities. The facilitators were drawn from the KSG in Nairobi and Mombasa. ...
Continue readingJTI conducted a training workshop for Court of Appeal Judges from 12th to 15th October, 2017. The main agenda of the training was discussions around revenue and taxation issues that relate to law. Among other issues discussed were the role of Kenya Revenue Authority in the economy, assessments relating to various tax heads (VAT, Income Tax & Excise), a presentation on dispute resolution mechanisms within Tax Law- (objections and appeals),elaborate enforcement of tax recovery, law and challenges and understanding the role of intelligence gathering in tax administration and emerging areas and challenges. Others were Community Law and emerging issues in Customs administration, participants...
Continue readingAs part of JTI mandate to undertake various research programmes and or come up with policies, various research programmes have been actively in progress. Amongst the programmes undertaken by the JTI’s Research and Policy Department are: Training Needs Assessment (TNA): With the transforming Judiciary and the launch of Performance Management System in 2015, JTI jointly with the Directorate of Human Resource and Administration has taken a strategic initiative to delve deeper into ways that enrich competencies, capabilities and potential of Judiciary employees. With the successful assessment of Training Needs of the Judiciary workforce, it is believed that the Judiciary will be...
Continue readingIn order to enhance the human resource capacity of the Judiciary, the Judicial Service Commission recruited over 1200 Judiciary staff during the 2016/2017 financial year.The staff includes secretaries, clerical officers, court interpreters, ICT officers and archivists. JTI has been conducting inductions for the new staff in groups of approximately 250 participants. The last group is set to be inducted from 15th to 18th November, 2017. The objectives for the training include helping participants understand the Sustaining Judiciary Transformation (SJT) & culture change, participants to be sensitized on ICT as an enabler of effective service delivery and ICT programme in SJT, understand Judiciary performance...
Continue readingThe ELRC held a workshop for its Judges from October 4 to 7, 2017. The workshop was themed "Striving towards an efficient Employment and Labour Relations Court with a focus on Sustaining Judiciary Transformation: opportunities, challenges and strategies”. The main objectives were to share the vision of the ELRC and implementation of SJT, describe the challenges and strategies to clear backlog in ELRC, understand the role of SRC in resolution of Economic Labour Disputes, understand the conflicting jurisprudence within the court, understand the performance contract and targets for the Court and indicate the emerging jurisprudence for Labour Court and stakeholders’ view. During the...
Continue readingAs part of dissemination and sensitization of staff, all trainings and workshops organized by JTI have had a component of SJT. The components include fair access to justice, clearance of case backlog, integrity, fight corruption and re-organization of Judiciary complaints handling mechanisms, restructuring and strengthening the office of the Judiciary Ombudsperson, Judiciary digital strategy and leadership and governance. The workshops highlighted the main focus of SJT that include: Improvement in the speed and quality of service delivery; Increasing efficiency and effectiveness at individual and system levels; Promoting individual accountability for performance; Promoting institutional accountability; Automation, digitization and improvement of work methods; ...
Continue readingJTI negotiated performance targets and contracts with PMMU during 2016/2017 financial year to cascade the contents of the contract to the staff of the institute. The purpose of this understanding is to enhance accountability for results by focusing on delivery of the mandate of the JTI and forms the basis for continuous improvement for the transformation of the Judiciary. This understanding establishes a framework for clear performance objectives, goals and targets for JTI and its staff whereby its Director submits monthly, quarterly and annual performance reports, based on the performance indicators and targets of every individual and department in the institute...
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Continue readingChief Justice David Maraga today presided over the official opening ceremony of the Judiciary Annual Sports Day held at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS), Nairobi. The two-day event that ends on Saturday was graced by World Marathon holder, Eliud Kipchoge. Teams from 15 regions across all court stations are participating in different outdoor and indoor games. The CJ said Judiciary must begin to think in terms of producing athletes who can compete on the international stage adding that the Judiciary Sports Day is a potentially good nursery for the nurturing of such talents. He said the new Judiciary Training Institute complex...
Continue readingChief Justice David Maraga launched his Strategic Blueprint on January 25th 2017, titled Sustaining Judiciary Transformation: A New Service Delivery Agenda. The blueprint is centered on six key areas: improving access to justice, handling corruption in and out of the Judiciary, improving ICT, reducing cases backlogs, digitization, and leadership and governance. All these aspirations, he said, are based on transforming the Judiciary, a foundation that was laid by immediate former CJ Willy Mutunga through the Judiciary Transformation Framework Popularly known as JTF that was developed under his tenure. Maraga also set up a committee to monitor the progress of the blueprint and its...
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