Toolkits

Under the Pacific Judicial Development Programme (PJDP) a collection of toolkits for the ongoing development of courts in the region were launched. These toolkits aim to support partner courts to implement their development activities at the local level by providing information and practical guidance on what to do. The toolkits include:

• Access to Justice Assessment Toolkit
  
• Annual Court Reporting Toolkit
  
• Efficiency Toolkit
• Enabling Rights and Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit
• Family Violence/Youth Justice Workshops Toolkit
  
• Gender and Family Violence Toolkit
• Human Rights Toolkit
• Judges' Orientation Toolkit
• Judicial Complaints Handling Toolkit
• Judicial Conduct Toolkit
• Judicial Decision-making Toolkit
• Judicial Mentoring Toolkit
• Judicial Orientation Session Planning Toolkit
• National Judicial Development Committees Toolkit
  
• Project Management Toolkit
  
• Public Information Toolkit
  
• Reducing Backlog and Delay Toolkit
• Remote Court Proceedings Toolkit
• Training-of-Trainers (ToT)
  
• Time Goals Toolkit

The toolkits were designed to support change by promoting the local use, management, ownership and sustainability of judicial development in PICs across the region. By developing and making available these resources, PJSI aims to build local capacity to enable partner courts to address local needs and reduce reliance on external donor and adviser support.

Use and support

These toolkits are available on-line for the use of partner courts. We hope that partner courts will use these toolkits as/when required. Should you need any additional assistance, please contact us at: pjsi@fedcourt.gov.au.

Your feedback

We also invite partner courts to provide feedback and suggestions for continual improvement.

Downloading Toolkits

Please note: depending on the version of Microsoft Office that you are using, some graphics or diagrams in the toolkits may not be shown correctly when documents are opened in Word (.doc) format. For fixed versions of the toolkits and additional resources, please use the PDF versions.

• Access to Justice Assessment Toolkit (pdf - 292.5 kb) | (doc - 249.8 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.6 mb) | (doc - 1.3 mb)
  
  

• Annual Court Reporting Toolkit (pdf - 1.6 mb) | (docx - 1.8 mb)
  Annex 1: Workshop Objectives, Session Outlines and Programme (pdf - 84.5 kb) | (doc - 44.8 kb)
  Annex 2: PowerPoint Presentation (pdf - 1.8 mb) | (ppt - 3.5 mb)
  Annex 3: Annual Report Planning Template (pdf - 318.3 kb) | (doc - 53.7 kb)
  Annex 4: Annual Report Template (pdf - 259.7 kb) | (doc - 414.6 kb)
  Annex 5: Chart Creator Excel Template (xls - 107.0 kb)
  Annex 6: Chart Creator Step-by-Step Guide (pdf - 1.5 mb) | (doc - 3.0 mb)
  Annex 7: Guide to making charts for an annual report (pdf - 5.8 mb) | (doc - 5.7 mb)
  Annex 8: Client Satisfaction Survey Example (pdf - 93.4 kb) | (doc - 44.5 kb)
  Annex 9a: CourtTools Access and Fairness Implementation Guide (pdf - 494.9 kb)
  Annex 9b: CourtTools Access and Fairness Survey Template (xls - 312.5 kb)
  Annex 10: Indicator Questionnaire (pdf - 103.5 kb) | (doc - 38.6 kb)
  Annex 11: Data Collection for Family Law Cases and Violence Cases (pdf - 148.2 kb) | (doc - 46.3 kb)
  Annex 12: Tokelau Data Spreadsheet (xls - 21 kb)
  Annex 13: Chart Creator – Sex Disaggregated Data v3.1 (with DVRO Data) 9 (xlsx - 151kb)
  Annex 14: Chart Creator – Juvenile (with Blank) (xlsx - 138 kb)
  Annex 15: Checklist for Sex, Age and Disability Inclusive Data in Annual Reports (pdf 443 kb) | (docx - 123kb)
  Annex 16: Palau Family Law and Family Protection Act Survey (pdf - 118 kb) | (docx - 42 kb)
  Annex 17: Taking Steps to make a Court more Accessible for People living with a Disability (pdf - 277 kb) | (docx - 36 kb)
  Annex 18: Fiji Courts 2011 – 217 Cases on PacLII - (pdf - 98 kb) | (docx - 121 kb)
  
  
• Efficiency Toolkit (pdf - 2.6 mb) | (doc - 4.4 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 954 kb) | (doc - 1.3 mb)
  Efficiency Review (pdf - 862 kb) | (doc - 1.3 mb)
  
  
• Enabling Rights & Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit (pdf - 1.4 mb) | (doc - 2.6 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.6 mb) | (doc - 5.1 mb)
  Enabling Rights & Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit – Yap Translated Edition (pdf - 311)
  Enabling Rights & Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit – Chuuk Translated Edition (pdf - 1.5 mb)
  Enabling Rights & Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit – Kosrae Translated Edition (pdf - 449 kb)
  Enabling Rights & Unrepresented Litigants Toolkit – Pohnpei Translated Edition (pdf - 20 mb)
  Annex 3A: Court Guidance for Unrepresented Litigants & Explanatory Note (pdf - 387 kb) | (doc - 119kb)
  Annex 4A: Conducting Community Consultations Guidance (pdf - 269 kb) | (doc - 52 kb)
  
  
• Family Violence and Youth Justice Workshops Toolkit (pdf - 203.9 kb) | (doc - 207.5 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.5 mb) | (doc - 2.3 mb)
  
  
• Gender and Family Violence Toolkit (pdf - 1.6 mb) | (doc - 13.7 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1.9 mb) | (doc - 3.1 mb)
  
  
• Human Rights Toolkit (pdf - 2.1 mb) | (doc - 5.9 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 5.6 mb) | (doc - 1.8 mb)
  
  
• Judge's Orientation Toolkit (pdf - 763.1 kb) | (doc - 745 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 472.8 kb) | (doc - 215.6 kb)
  Sample PowerPoint Presentations (pdf - 2.6 mb) | (doc - 2.5 mb)
  
  
• Judicial Complaints Handling Toolkit (pdf - 336.4 kb) | (doc - 390.0 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 174.2 kb) | (doc - 167.3 kb)
  
  
• Judicial Conduct Toolkit (pdf - 562.5 kb) | (doc - 1.5 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 335.8 kb) | (doc - 207.6 kb)
  
  
• Judicial Decision-making Toolkit (pdf - 280.1 kb) | (doc - 439.1 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 1 mb) | (doc - 2.0 mb)
  
  
• Judicial Mentoring Toolkit (pdf - 1073 kb) | (docx - 276 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 947 kb) | (docx - 233 kb)
  
  
• Judicial Orientation Session Planning Toolkit (pdf - 464 kb) | (doc - 312 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 10 mb) | (doc - 21 mb)
  
  
• National Judicial Development Committee Toolkit (pdf - 468.4 kb) | (doc - 413.7 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 379.1 kb) | (doc - 255.4 kb)
  
  
• Project Management Toolkit (pdf - 2.0 mb) | (doc - 1.9 mb)
  Presentation Slides (pdf - 2.9 mb) | (doc - 5.2 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 810 kb) | (doc - 560 kb)

• Public Information Toolkit (pdf - 2.4 mb) | (doc - 7.5 mb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 3.2 mb) | (doc - 3 mb)
  
  
• Reducing Backlog and Delay Toolkit (pdf - 663 kb) | (doc - 510 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 3.4 mb) | (doc - 8.0 mb)
  
  
• Remote Court Proceedings Toolkit (pdf - 993 kb) | (doc - 779 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 8.7 mb) | (doc - 8.3 mb)
  
  
• Trainer's Toolkit (pdf - 450 kb) | (doc - 359 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 293.5 kb) | (doc - 182.1 kb)
  
  
• Time Goals Toolkit (pdf - 531 kb) | (doc - 502 kb)
  Additional Documentation (pdf - 2.5 mb) | (doc - 4.4 mb)

Pacific Judicial & Court Reform Resource Collection

The above 20 Toolkits have been collated to form a resource collection over the following 5 volumes:

• Volume 1: Core Skills (pdf - 16.5 mb)
• Volume 2: Localising Training and Activity Management (pdf - 12.3 mb)
• Volume 3: Access to Justice (pdf - 15.8 mb)
• Volume 4: Procedural Justice (pdf - 20.3 mb)
• Volume 5: Accountability and Transparency (pdf - 17.0 mb)