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Examples of international and domestic projects
conducted by CJS include:
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Samoa's Law and Justice Sector
Steering Committee, Apia |
Samoa's Law and
Justice Reform Strategy (AusAID and NZAID)
Apia
September 2007-2009
Law and Justice Sector advisor.
Responsible for providing advice to the
Government of Samoa on the design,
development and implementation of its new
Law and Justice Sector strategy, including
detailed formulation of all strategies and
priorities; development of capacity; and
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Asian Development Bank -
Evaluation of Judicial Reform Assistance
Manila August - December 2007
Livingston was engaged by ADB's Independent
Evaluation Department as international advisor
to assist in the special evaluation study of the
Bank's program of technical assistance
supporting judicial reform across Asia between
1990-2007. He provided a review of the global
literature of law and justice reform, and
assessed judicial training activities.
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA - National Judicial
Development Program, 2008
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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.
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Tampuan indigenous
community
Ratanakiri, NE
Cambodia, January 2006
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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
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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.
UC
Berkeley lecture:
"Does Rule of Law Reform Make a Difference?" |
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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
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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
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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:
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sector
strategic planning and priority-setting
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designing a performance
monitoring framework
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developing information
management capability
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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 |
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Cambodia - Criminal
Justice Assistance Program (AusAID)
Canberra August 2005
Technical specialist
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(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
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(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).
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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)
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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)
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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
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Chief Justice of
Balochistan
First
Provincial Judicial Conference
Quetta,
Pakistan, 2002 |
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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
Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of
NSW; management of all instructional sessions,
and consultations with the Chief Justice of
the High Court of Australia, and the Court of
Appeal.
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Independent Efficiency
and Effectiveness Reviews of the
Aboriginal Legal Aid Service
Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders Commission
(ATSIC), 1997-2000 (x13 reviews)
Organisational performance reviews of the
operations of the legal aid service for indigenous
peoples in the Northern Territory, Western Australia,
Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia and NSW.
Methodology is highly consultative with community
and tribal peoples, staff, the judiciary, police,
prison services and related legal service providers.
Includes detailed practical recommendations
to enhance strategic positioning and operational
effectiveness.
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Strategy for the
Development of Judges in the Palestinian Authority
Rule of Law Project, Palestine (World Bank),
Palestine, 1996-2000
(x6 missions)Preparation of detailed strategies and budgets
for training of judges and prosecutors for the
Palestinian Authority for the World Bank; conducting
in-country needs assessment, program design,
conducting faculty development training (Training-of
Trainers), and delivering training at Birzeit
University, Ramallah, on the West Bank and in
Gaza. |
Project management,
curriculum design and training
Supreme Peoples Court of Vietnam Training Program
(UNDP), 1999 (x3 delegations)
Design of judicial skills component of training
program, needs assessment, management of faculty,
workshop design, delivery of training sessions
and project evaluation of three delegations
of judges in joint venture with the Centre for
Asian & Pacific Law, University of Sydney
- CAPLUS.
Strategic Plan for
Judicial Training throughout Pacific Region
Pacific Regional Judicial Training Project (UNDP),
1998-'99
(x4 missions)
Development of comprehensive strategic plan,
needs assessment, resource assessment, risk
assessment, design of priority training projects,
governance structure, establishment and budgeting,
related strategies, performance indicators and
project evaluation.
Needs Assessment,
Performance Management, and Project Evaluation
Mongolian Judiciary Technical Assistance Project,
for the International Development Law Institute
- IDLI - (USAID), 1997-'99
(x5 missions)
Three assignments to: (a) conduct needs assessment
for first judges’ bench book comprising
consulting, interviewing and surveying judicial
population and reporting findings; (b) design
performance management system; and (c) measure
performance indicators for project evaluation
purposes.
Strategic Review
of Judicial Education
Office of the State Courts Administrator, State
of Missouri, USA, October 1997
Review of the strategic direction and operational
management of the program of judicial education
for the State of Missouri, and to facilitate
a process for the State Courts Administrator
to identify and address challenges of growth.
Performance Indicators
and Evaluation
Judicial Mentor Program, Haiti Administration
of Justice Project (USAID), 1997
Design of performance assessment procedures
to enable systematic measurement of (a) judicial
performance and (b) impact of training interventions
in designated aspects of competence. (For example:
knowledge of law, court skills, efficiency of
case management, and protection of human rights).
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Strategies for the
Development of Judges and Prosecutors of the
Cambodian Courts; Design and Strategy Review
for Judicial Education
Cambodian Court Training Project, International
Human Rights Law Group (USAID), 1996-'97 (x3
missions)
Three missions to refine project strategies
and priorities, design need assessment survey
instrument, conduct planning workshops, draft
program charter, design critical date plan,
design inaugural national conference program,
schedule conference production plan, design
faculty development (train-the-trainer workshop),
outline bench book proposal, set table of contents,
prepare production schedule for bench book,
design position description for editor, prepare
style and writers’ guides, prepare meeting
agenda for Minister of Justice, convene inaugural
education committee meeting for Minister of
Justice, devise judicial education advisory
group agenda, critique external AID evaluation,
and develop project evaluation framework.
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Observations on the
Program of Judicial Education
Administrative Office of the Courts, Utah, USA,
October 1996
Review of the strategic direction and operational
management of the program of judicial education
for the State of Utah, and provide specific
recommendations for program development.
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