Course description
Judicial Reasoning
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Suitability - Who should attend?
- Members of the judiciary of all grades
- Prosecutors
- Trainee judges and prosecutors
- Court clerks
- Legal and administrative personnel of tribunals
- Counsels of States
- Legislative drafters
- Members of Parliament participating in legislative drafting committees
- Lawyers
- Legal professionals, clerks of chambers and paralegals
- Law graduates wishing to take either the judicial or prosecutorial route
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Enhance the ability to engage ‘critically’ and logically in judicial reasoning
- Develop the skills to articulate sound legal arguments
- Strengthen the understanding of the moral, social and political aspects of legal reasoning
- Understand the relationship between statutes and cases
- Appreciate the role of Judges and Human Rights
- In-depth understanding of the role of rights in administrative, civil and criminal justice processes
- Understand the substantive role and constitutional position of judges
- Master judicial approaches to statutory interpretation and the influence of international instruments on those approaches
- Gain an in-depth appreciation of the fundamental elements of the rule of law, and the significance of fairness and justice in social and legal systems
- Identify rapidly key issues in cases and be able to summarise key points succinctly, accurately and with high impact
- Strengthen legal research skills using primary and secondary sources
- Kolb’s Adult Learning Styles Model
- Respond coherently to challenging questions about the law by the use of legal referencing
Training Course Content
Week 1: Judicial Reasoning
- Explore ‘What’ the ‘Law’ should mean to you
- Legal, moral and judicial facets explained
- Why the nature of law evolves, its significance to society, and how big data drivers will drive future law-making
- Legislative interpretation
- Applied legislation for interpretation – Persons of legislative interpretations (PLIs)
- Techniques for developing and evidencing a reasoned argument • Rebuttable v. non-rebuttable presumptions
- Judicial precedent v. freedom to exercise judicial discretion: scoping and limitations
- The base for logical reasoning
- The aspects of judicial reasoning
- The relationships and roles of parliaments and courts
- Reasoning techniques to reach decisions
- The ‘neighbour’ principle as outlined by Lord Atkin
- Internal and external justification of conclusions of law – dictum justifications
- Use v. misuse of deduction
- Use v. misuse of ‘coherence-based’ arguments
- Consequential arguments
- Rhetorical analysis of legal reasoning – verbal and writing skills
- The role of human rights and the reason for their emergence
- The relevance of human rights in judicial reasoning and decision-making
- Understanding the framework for human rights in different jurisdictions
- Legal skills, problem-solving, and good writing skills
- Anatomy of the complexities in law and justice – similarities and differences
- The role of the successful judge in modern society
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