Courses in judicial studies

Judge William Rose, director of the English Judicial Studies Board, will be coming to Malta soon to advise the Judicial Studies Committee on its future work, Justice and Home Affairs Minister Tonio Borg said yesterday.

He was speaking at the start of a three-day seminar on the transposition of European legislation into national law.

The Judicial Studies Committee is composed of four members, two of them appointed by the Chief Justice representing the judiciary and two by the minister responsible for justice.

The committee has already held a series of 30 lectures and is now organising courses for staff at the Attorney General's office and in other departments within Dr Borg's portfolio.

The committee is also planning courses for members of the judiciary on information technology, European legislation and civil and criminal procedure.

The ministry has offered to arrange, with the assistance of the British High Commission, for a number of judges to be seconded to the royal courts of justice in London for a short period in order to give them experience of the workings of the British civil courts and the Master system.