The National Courts Administration is implementing a project on Increasing the Quality, Services and Infrastructure in Lithuanian Courts. The project is aimed at developing measures for: strengthening the transparency and independence of the judiciary formation process and improving the quality of the judicial proceedings; improving the court service quality and developing the competencies of the court representatives; improving the infrastructure and the security level at the courts.
One of the tasks of the project on Increasing the Quality, Services and Infrastructure in Lithuanian Courts is to develop the Model for Selection and Evaluation of Judges (more about the Model for Selection and Evaluation of Judges here). Another task of the project Increasing the Quality, Services and Infrastructure in Lithuanian Courts is to prepare a Study on Strengthening the Competency of Court Managers for Effective Management of Judicial Resources. The Law on Courts states that the president of the court, the deputy president of the court and the chairperson of court division lead the organisational work of the court, the chancellor of court leads the court administration, and in his absence the court president assigns one of the heads of the court administration divisions / departments to perform all or part of the functions of the court registrar. In line with this, the top- and middle-level court managers must have managerial skills. Since no criteria or methods for the evaluation of the managerial competencies were defined in the legal acts up to 2022, the following was within the scope of the Project:
- to perform the Court Managers’ (presidents of courts, deputy presidents of courts, chairpersons of court divisions, chancellors of courts, heads of divisions / departments (the “Court Managers“)) competency ‘As is‘ analysis, the foreign good practice analysis, and the surveys of target groups and stakeholders;
- to develop the Court Managers’ Competency Model, including the evaluation criteria and methodology, based on the results of the analysis;
- to develop the plan for strengthening the Court Managers‘ competencies in the field of corruption prevention control and development of environment with zero tolerance to corruption.
You can get acquainted with the prepared Study on Strengthening the Competency of Court Managers for Effective Management of Judicial Resources below.
