Why Judicial Education Institutions (JEI) must Focus Vulnerabilities faced on Account of Age, Economic Status, Sexual Orientation and Participation in Civil Society Movements?

Abstract

In this paper, the authoress points out relevance of some themes for present day judiciary and why judicial education (training) institutions must include some subjects in their yearly training agenda. The present judicial training system, as operational in different countries, is mostly designed and developed in content by the judges themselves. From past five years, in their rush to update and upkeep with the new technological and commercial environment that is daily unfolding, these institutions have almost sidelined the core commitment to produce a responsive judiciary. To remind the judges involved in policy making on judicial training about the need to focus on the justice as foundation for any training, author proposes some areas that cannot be negated from the training agenda for survival of democracy in future. Keywords: Judicial training; Judicial education institutions; Poverty; Private justice system; Social justice; Economic justice; Child sexual abuse; Sexual orientation; Utility of films for education; Training methodology