GLOBAL TRENDS IN THE STATUS AND ROLES OF JUDICIAL ASSISTANTS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN INDONESIA

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INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR "GLOBAL TRENDS IN THE STATUS AND ROLES OF JUDICIAL ASSISTANTS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN INDONESIA”

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The relevance of judicial assistants to the Judicial Commission

The judicial assistants institution and their working relationship with judges are improving. In the Indonesian context, amidst of various issues related to judiciary, the discourse on judicial assistants becomes interesting. Judicial assistants (especially if it is placed at all level of court) may help maintain the quality of judges’ decisions amidst the ratio imbalance between the number of judges and the case load, which potentially make judges have to pursue the target of case settlement, but without the proper depth of consideration in such decision. The discourse regarding the existence of judicial assistants can be seen by the Indonesian Judicial Commission (Komisi Yudisial) from the perspective of enhancing the support system for judges in examining and deciding cases.

Furthermore, in the context of the Supreme Court justice selection, judicial assistants assigned at the Supreme Court can be perceived by the Judicial Commission as an outlet for scouting the supreme court justice in the future, both career and non-career. Career judges who become seconded judges in the Supreme Court can be considered to have added value (especially those with maintained integrity) when they later participate in the selection of candidates for Supreme Court justice. The Judicial Commission can also focus on mapping potential Supreme Court justice candidates from among those who have served as seconded judges.

Even for legal academics, serving as judicial assistants at the Supreme Court (which is not yet possible at the moment) can be a strategic choice if the person concerned has aspirations to become Supreme Court justice from a non-career path. In terms of the court’s benefit, the existence of an academic element as judicial assistants which is widely known in European Union countries will enrich the theoretical basis of a court decision, and bring legal practice closer to academic discourse, and vice versa.
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Speakers

1. Dr. Sebastiaan Pompe, Author of the Book “The Collapse of the Supreme Court Institution” (“Global trend on the use of judicial assistant in judicial process”);
2. Prof. Geert Corstens, former Chief Justice of the Netherlands Supreme Court (“Judicial assistant’s position and role in the Dutch judicial system”);
3. Prof. Takdir Rahmadi, Chairman of the Development Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia (“The regulation and practice of judicial assistantship at the Indonesian Supreme Court”);
4. Prof. Ningrum Natasya Sirait, Faculty of Law, Sumatera Utara University (“Judicial assistant ideal position and role vis-a-vis Indonesian context from the perspective of legal academic”);
5. Dr. Binziad Kadafi, Commissioner in Charge of Human Resources, Advocacy, Law, and Research & Development Affairs of the Judicial Commission of the Republic of Indonesia (“Discourse on judicial assistant and its relevance to the Judicial Commission”).

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