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CMJA TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE 

“Innovations In Judicial Practice:
Embracing Change For A Better Future”

21-26 September 2025

Banjul, The Gambia

Details are now available on www.cmja.biz 

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The CMJA Council 2022-2025

A new Board of Trustees and  appointed/elected in September 2022 (see https://www.cmja.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/CMJA-COUNCIL-LIST-2022-2025-web.pdf for details).  Regional Vice Presidents have agreed they can be contacted directly. Please find below the contact information for the Regional Vice Presidents

ATLANTIC & MEDITERRANEAN
Mr Justice Graeme Mew, Canada
CARIBBEAN
Justice Richard Williams, Cayman Islands
EAST, CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
Justice Ilvin Mugeta, Tanzania
INDIAN OCEAN
Mr Justice Balasundaram Rajendran, India
PACIFIC OCEAN
Mrs Linda Bradford-Morgan, Australia
WEST AFRICA
Hon. Justice Emmanuel E Roberts, Sierra Leone

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Recent CMJA Conference Reports

(The CMJA retains the copyright of all its Reports. You are only permitted to reproduce the Speeches from these Reports with the express permission of the CMJA and if you duly acknowledge the source of the speech and the author).

“Environmental Justice”
CMJA Conference, Kigali, Rwanda 2024

“Open Justice Today”
CMJA Conference, Cardiff, Wales 2023

“Access to Justice in the Modern World”
CMJA 19th Triennial Conference, Accra, Ghana 2022

Post Pandemic Innovations
Virtual Conference, 2021

“Parliamentary Democracy and the Role of the Judiciary”
CMJA Conference, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2019

“Becoming Stronger Together”
CMJA 18th Triennial Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 2018

“Building an Effective, Accountable and Inclusive Judiciary”
CMJA Conference, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania,2017

“The Judiciary as The Guarantors of the Rule of Law”
CMJA Conference, Georgetown Guyana 2016

“Independent Judiciaries, Diverse Societies”
CMJA 17th Triennial Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 2015

“Judicial Independence: The Challenges of the Modern Era”
Livingstone, Zambia 2014

“Is Your Latimer House in Order?”
Jersey 2013

CMJA Triennial Conference
“Justice for Everyone: Myth or Reality?”
CMJA 16th Triennial Conference, Munyonyo, Uganda 2012″

“Community Justice and Judicial Independence: Local Issues, Commonwealth Standards”
Brighton 2010

 

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OTHER REPORTS, PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

AUGUST 2021

A Guide For the Magistrate in the Commonwealth: Fundamental Principles, Recommended Practices  Updated August 2021

SEPTEMBER 2018
DECLARATION ON THE INDEPENDENCE AND INTEGRITY OF THE LOWER COURTS

JUNE 2017
DELIVERING JUSTICE IN THE LOWER COURTS ON THE SNIFF OF AN OILY RAG
Presented by Chief Judge Dr John Lowndes of the Local Court of the Northern
Territory at the Criminal Lawyers Association Northern Territory
16th Bali Conference

MAY 2013
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS COMMISSIONS: A MODEL CLAUSE FOR CONSTITUTIONS

FEBRUARY 2013
STATUS OF MAGISTRATES REPORT

 

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