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Juba, Sudan

IDLO is working in partnership with the Judiciary of Southern Sudan (JOSS) and the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development (MOLACD) to enhance the capacity of the legal profession and the judiciary in Southern Sudan.

With the support of the Government of the Netherlands and the European Union, IDLO works in partnership with the Judiciary of Southern Sudan to enhance legal knowledge and skills of all Judges in the area, to build the legal resources of the JOSS, and to establish relationships with regional counterparts. IDLO began its partnership with the Judiciary of Southern Sudan in June 2009, with a joint judicial capacity assessment, and continuing with a ten-week procedural law training course and the enhancement of the Judiciary’s legal resources during Year 1 of its program.

 
Sudanese paralegals working
outside the Wau Court to assist population filling in documents

The IDLO/JOSS Year 2 program, from June 2010 to June 2011, will have five components:

  • Judicial Knowledge and Skills Training - Procedural Law Training covering the rules of civil procedure, criminal procedure and evidence; Substantive Law Training on topics such as juvenile justice, contracts, family law, and land law; and Legal English: English language and Legal English terminology training.
  • Establishment of a Judicial Training Unit within JOSS
  • Judicial Benchbook - on the topics of civil procedure, criminal procedure, ethics, and substantive law. Copies of the Benchbook will be distributed to all judges in Southern Sudan.
  • Enhanced Legal Resources – including the distribution of the laws and Supreme Court Decisions of Southern Sudan to all judges and acquisition of legal reference materials for the libraries of the Supreme Court and Appellate Court.
  • Establishment of Regional Judicial Partnerships – with a focus on Uganda and Kenya.

With the support of the United Nations Development Program, IDLO is providing technical assistance to the MOLACD to establish a Legal Training Institute (LTI). The LTI will provide continuing legal education to government and private legal professionals. In 2010, IDLO’s assistance to the LTI Management Board will focus on the necessary steps to establish a functioning Institution, including developing a governance structure, program and financial strategic plan and curricula.