Article 22 Appraisal of family justices
The FTDC shall establish a scheme to appraise the performance on the bench of the family justices, such as will enable it to—
determine their training and development needs;
report to the MATC on their training needs; and
maintain a list of approved family court chairmen in accordance with rules 32, 33 and 35.
The FTDC shall select family justices to conduct appraisals (“the appraising family justices”) and it may also arrange for a family justice assigned to a different local justice area to conduct appraisals.
The FTDC shall determine the intervals at which family justices are to be appraised, having regard to the requirements of rules 35 and 38(b).
The FTDC shall establish a procedure for conducting appraisals, which shall include the following elements—
the notification that will be given to the family justice to be appraised (“the appraised family justice”);
a procedure for the appraising family justice to record his assessment and for notifying the appraised family justice and the FTDC of that assessment;
a procedure for enabling the appraised family justice to discuss the assessment with the appraising family justice and a procedure enabling the appraised family justice to challenge the assessment to a person other than the appraising family justice; and
the time limits for those procedures.
The FTDC shall publish its scheme to the family justices.