08 to 13 March 201726 June to 02 July 201707 to 14 July 2017
2017 National Association for Court Management and International Association for Court Administration Joint International Conference, Arlington, Virginia, USA14th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia and International Symposium, Solo, IndonesiaAfrican Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice Continental Conference on “Collaboration between the Judiciary and Community Justice Institutions on Access to Justice”, Kigali, Rwanda17 to 22 September 201722nd Yerevan...
GroundUp: What percentage of the total travel and subsistence expenditure goes toward stipends, per diems, and/or benefits to judges/staff?There are no stipends paid to Judges and officials. But they are all entitled to claim subsistence and travelling expenses incurred in line with public service and Judges conditions of employment and remuneration prescripts, respectively. The S&T is claimed by all mentioned in paragraph 1 above.
This expenditure is based on the operational training requirements of the Judiciary and covers the total cost of travel expenses for Judges, Magistrates, training facilitators and support staff required for judicial training purposes. The details re the number of training courses conducted for each financial year are contained in the relevant OCJ Annual Reports.
GroundUp: Why is R73.9 million spent on travel and subsistence within Programme 2: Superior Court Services ? Please provide an explanation/breakdown for this number.The bulk of the OCJ budget is under Programme 2. It can therefore be expected that the bulk of travel expenses would also be for this Programme. These travel expenses cover all the travelling expenses of Judges, court officials, witnesses and job interviewees as part of OCJ operations.