Judicial Officers' Introductory Course

The objective of this online self-paced specialist training course is to build the competence of Judicial Officers to hear some of the most prevalent types of fraud and corruption-related cases in the region, specifically fraud and bribery cases.

Following completion of this course, we aim for participating Judicial Officers to be able to:

• Apply generally applicable principles, standards and approaches to hearing and disposing of prevalent types of fraud and corruption-related cases.
• Define, interpret and apply domestic law and due process.
• Identify the elements of fraud and corruption-related offences and the evidence required to prove them.
• Apply law to a set of facts regarding prevalent fraud and corruption-related offences and detail the rationale for their decision making including imposing appropriate criminal penalties.
• Strengthen judicial identity and continue to build the region’s professional network by sharing and exchanging professional experiences with hearing fraud and corruption-related cases.

Recognising that it is not always possible for judicial officers to be available to attend in-person training, we developed an online training course enabling judicial officers’ from across the region to learn remotely and at their own pace over five sessions. The course covers the following topics: