Examples of international and domestic projects conducted by CJS include:

Cambodia - Access to Justice Program (UNDP) Phnom Penh September 2005/6 Senior Counsel - Legal & Judicial Reform.  Responsible for providing upstream policy advice, support and program management on issues related to the administration and access to justice, and legal and judicial frameworks, to key stakeholders including Council for Legal and Judicial Reform, Council of Jurists and Ministry of Justice.  Policy-level engagement at deputy prime minister, chief justice and ministerial levels.  Extensive donor coordination role.

Tampuan indigenous community  Ratanakiri, NE Cambodia, January 2006

 

Director facilitating the Strategic Planning Workshop of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Phnom Penh. Justice Marcel Lemonde (France) and Justice Claudia Fenz (Austria) onlooking. July 2006

Cambodia - Khmer Rouge Tribunal Phnom Penh April-July 2006 Senior Judicial Development Advisor - Direct and facilitate strategic and technical planning for the Judicial Chambers, conduct management planning for the Administrative Office, design and develop professional development strategy and training program for the KRT.

His Excellency Justice Shinwari  The Chief Justice of Afghanistan Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2005

Afghanistan - Rule of Law Project (USAID) Kabul 2005/2006 (4 Missions) Judicial Training Specialist – Undertake the first national judicial training needs assessment and prepare comprehensive training strategy for the Supreme Court of Afghanistan.  Advise the Chief Justice of Afghanistan on the establishment of the Supreme Court’s program of judicial education and training, review of stage training, design of continuing education program, development of methodologies for training needs assessment, training-of-trainers (ToT), and curriculum planning. Supreme Court of Afghanistan, Training-of-Trainers (ToT) Workshop September 2006

Bar Association Herat, Afghanistan, May 2006

Papua New Guinea's "Justice Advisory Group" - JAG - (AusAID) (21 missions) PNG's Law & Justice Sector Reform Program January 2003 - 2005   Project Director: responsible for directing the provision of independent strategic and technical advice to GoPNG and AusAID on the performance of the law and justice sector agencies in relation to policy management and operational matters, and to oversee and monitor the law and justice sector-wide approach (SWAP) development program, which in conjunction with the Enhanced Cooperation Program is valued at A$1B. Major functional elements include: sector strategic planning and priority-setting designing a performance monitoring framework developing information management capability operationalising an integrated formal/informal sector restorative justice approach Director with Sir Mari Kapi, Hon Chief Justice of PNG, and other leaders of the law and justice sector

Cambodia - Criminal Justice Assistance Program (AusAID)
Canberra August 2005

Technical specialist – (Law and Justice) Provide advice on possible future Government of Australia support to the criminal justice sector, and appraise concept paper for peer review on the next phase of assistance.

Fiji – Law & Justice Sector Program (AusAID)
Suva July 2005

Technical specialist – (Law and Justice) Provide an appraisal of strategic positioning of the Fiji Law & Justice Program, with an assessment of the program's development and engagement strategies.

Cambodia - Royal School of Judges &Prosecutors (AusAID)
Phnom Penh 2005

Technical specialist – Design and conduct two capacity-building workshops each of two days in organisational planning and adult learning techniques (Training of Trainers - ToT) at the RJSP, Phnom Penh, in collaboration with the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO).

Vietnam – Assessment of Need for Training in Legal Drafting - (Danida) Hanoi March - June 2005 Technical specialist - Research and submission of substantiated assessment of the training needed in legislative drafting in the Vietnamese central administration, with two options for curriculum implement. (2 missions)

Independent expert, AusAID's Technical Assessment Panel

Bangladesh Legal & Judicial Capacity-building Project - US$40m (World Bank)

August, July 2004 and April 2003 (3 missions to date)

 

Strategic advisor and independent reviewer, Reforms Advisory Consultants (RAC)

Pakistan's Access to Justice Reform Program US$350 million loan and Judicial and Legal Reform Project US$3 million TA grant (ADB) Islamabad, Pakistan, January 2001 – December 2002 Core Team Leader: responsible for supporting the launch and implementation of US$350 million Access to Justice Program loan, and compliance with tranche conditionalities between ADB and the federal Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights. Also responsible for project management and implementation of US$3 million TA grant for technical assistance in pilot projects for judicial and legal reform; technical assistance relating to judicial policy-making, delay reduction pilot courts, access to justice, judicial training, legal education and reform of the legal profession, commercial dispute resolution capacity-building, and legislative reform; project management relating to timely delivery of outputs for forty international and domestic consultants (205 consultant months).

Chief Justice of Balochista First Provincial Judicial Conference Quetta, Pakistan, 2002

Community Consultations Kaghan, Pakistan, 2002 Significant achievements included the delay reduction project where backlog was reduced by 30%+ in one district, and case disposals increased by 246% in another – during the eight months pilot sittings. Access to Justice Newsletter May 2006   Click here to listen to ABC Radio interview with the Director on 10 December 2002

Kingdom of Nepal Judicial Reform Project (ADB)
Kathmandu, September 2000

ADB staff advisor on design of terms of reference for the project.

Maldives Legal & Judicial Reform Project (ADB)
Male’, Maldives, September 2000 – July 2001

Team Leader for judicial component. Responsible for technical implementation of project including: publishing the first judges’ bench book, delivering seminars and workshop program, conducting train-the-trainer workshops, conducting overseas study tour for chief justice and judges, and designing curriculum for continuing judicial education.

Kingdom of Tonga Legal Strengthening Project (AusAID) 2000

Team Leader, and Independent Technical Advisor to AusAID:
Project design and monitoring of managing consultant.

Project management, curriculum design and training
Judicial Delegation from the Philippines (CDI-AusAID) 2000

Design and delivery of the Australian component of this exchange program with the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA) on behalf of the Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI), ANU. Creation of "judicial placements" in the Federal