The Judicial Action Group
The Judicial Action Group (JAG) consists of a group of African Judges working to create a legal resource and communication platform by which judges can interact and construct common solutions to major legal issues across the continent.
Across Africa judges face increasingly complex challenges to their work. Be it the increasing wish of governments to infringe upon the independence of the judiciary or copious amounts of litigation leading to case-backlog, innovative solutions are required to ensure that African judges can effectively fulfill their functions as standard-bearers for impartiality and justice.
As such the Judicial Action Group brings together high-ranking members of various African Judiciaries to construct solutions to these problems. The JAG will work using a secure online communication platform that can bring together a far wider cross-section of judges. At its inaugural meeting in Cape Town in 2016 it resolved to adopt the Bangalore Principles.
The expanding group will meet this year for the second time to discuss the development of its platform, which will go online to reach a wider range of judges across Africa.
Across Africa judges face increasingly complex challenges to their work. Be it the increasing wish of governments to infringe upon the independence of the judiciary or copious amounts of litigation leading to case-backlog, innovative solutions are required to ensure that African judges can effectively fulfill their functions as standard-bearers for impartiality and justice.
As such the Judicial Action Group brings together high-ranking members of various African Judiciaries to construct solutions to these problems. The JAG will work using a secure online communication platform that can bring together a far wider cross-section of judges. At its inaugural meeting in Cape Town in 2016 it resolved to adopt the Bangalore Principles.
The expanding group will meet this year for the second time to discuss the development of its platform, which will go online to reach a wider range of judges across Africa.
