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Article 30 Appraisal of youth justices

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(1)

The ILYTDC shall establish a scheme to appraise the performance on the bench of the youth justices, such as will enable it to—

(a)

determine their training and development needs;

(b)

report to the MATC on their training needs; and

(c)

maintain a list of approved youth court chairmen in accordance with rules 32, 33 and 36.

(2)

The ILYTDC shall select youth justices to conduct appraisals (“the appraising youth justices”) and it may also arrange for a youth justice assigned to a different local justice area to conduct appraisals.

(3)

The ILYTDC shall determine the intervals at which youth justices are to be appraised, having regard to the requirements of rules 36 and 38(b).

(4)

The ILYTDC shall establish a procedure for conducting appraisals, which shall include the following elements—

(a)

the notification that will be given to the youth justice to be appraised (“the appraised youth justice”);

(b)

a procedure for the appraising youth justice to record his assessment and for notifying the appraised youth justice and the ILYTDC of that assessment;

(c)

a procedure for enabling the appraised youth justice to discuss the assessment with the appraising youth justice and a procedure enabling the appraised youth justice to challenge the assessment to a person other than the appraising youth justice; and

(d)

the time limits for those procedures.

(5)

The ILYTDC shall publish its scheme to the youth justices.