Asia-Pacific Court Conference Opening Ceremony, 5 Oct 2010
Opening Keynote Address by Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong, Supreme Court , Singapore
Session 1 - Plenary:
Journey Towards Court Excellence & The International Framework for Court Excellence (IFCE)
Speakers:
1.
Judge Tan Siong Thye, Chief District Judge, Subordinate Courts of Singapore
2.
Daniel J Hall, Vice President. Court Consulting Services, NCSC
3.
Laurie Glanfield AM, Director-General, Department of Justice, Attorney-General's Department, New South Wales (Australia)
Session 2 - Concurrent presentations on Court Excellence Case Studies
Session 2a: Concurrent Session (Sophia Room)
Speakers:
1.
Warwick Soden, Chief Executive Officer and Rgistrar of the Federal Court of Australia
2.
Judge Thian Yee Sze, District Judge and Senior Director of the Strategic Planning and Training Division, Subordinate Courts of Singapore
3.
Judge Iryna Voytyuk, President of the Academy of Judges, Ukraine
Session 2b: Concurrent Session (Bras Basah Ballroom)
Speakers:
1.
Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court, Australia
2.
Justice Peter Murphy, Family Court of Australia
3.
Judge Tkachev Victor, Chairman of the Rostov Regional Court, Russia
Session 3 - Court Planning Policies
Speakers:
1.
The Right Honourable Tun Dato' Seri Zaki bin Tun Azmi, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Malaysia
2.
Chief Justice Paul De Muniz, Oregon Supreme Court (USA)
3.
Justice Rifyal Ka'vah, Supreme Court of Indonesia
Session 4 - Plenary
IFCE Implementation - An explaination of the seven areas of court excellence
Speakers:
1. Professor Greg Reinhardt, Director, Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
2. Dr. Andrew Cannon, Deputy Chief Magistrate, South Australia
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Session 5 - Plenary
Access to Justice
Speakers:
1.
Chief Justice Marilyn Warren, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia
2.
Chief District Judge Russell Johnson, District Court of New Zealand, New Zealand
3.
Judge Graham Jones, Civil Justice Council, United Kingdom
Session 6a - Concurren Breakout
Country presentations (Sophia Room)
Speakers:
1. Judge Akyltay Kassimov, Chairman of Supervisory Collegium on Criminal Cases, Kazakhstan
2.
Jakhongir Khaydarov, Director of the Research Center, The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan
3.
Foo Chee Hock, Registrar, Supreme Court of Singapore
Session 6b - Concurren Breakout
Judicial Training (Bra Basah Room)
Speakers:
1.
Judge Sandra Oxner, Chairperson, Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, Canada
2. Justice Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria, Chief Judge of High Court in Malaya, Malaysia
3.
Justice VK Rajah, Judge of Appeal (Supreme Court of Singapore) & Chairman (Judicial Education Board), Singapore
4.
Samuel Vuelta-Simon, Deputy Director, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, France
Session 7 - Plenary
What is a quality judiciary?
Speakers:
1.
Justice Steven Rares, Federal Court of Australia
2.
David Vaughn, USAid (Ukraine)
3.
Dr Pim Albers, Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Justice, Netherlands
Session 8 - Plenary
Court Leadership: Judicial Reform & Improving Judicial Administration Around The World
Speakers:
1.
Chief Justice Wayne Martin, Supreme Court of Western Australia
2.
Senior Judge Clifford Wallace, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, United States of America
3.
Justice Helen Winkelmann, Chief High Court Judge, High Court of New Zealand
Session 9 - Plenary
The way forward - Panel Discussion
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