International Best Practice in Case Management
The extended Case Management edition builds on the Working Presumptions on International Best Practice in Case Management chaired by the Hon. James Allsop AC (then Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia) and Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Gross (the a Lord Justice of Appeal in England and Wales). The Working Presumptions sought to state general fundamental elements and approaches to case management.
This extended edition combines the Working Presumptions with a practical additional commentary and examples developed by the participating judges of the 2023 SIFoCC Observation Programme and was ratified in April 2024.
SIFoCC Presumptions of Best Practice in Case Management 2020
The product of SIFoCC’s first international working group provides a succinct approach to what constitutes best practice in Case Management. Individual courts can use this to develop more particular approaches, rules or practice notes suitable for their individual requirements, situations, legislative contexts and circumstances.
SIFoCC Covid-19 Memorandum and SIFoCC Covid-19 Annex A
These documents detail the way courts from across the world responded to the COVID 19 pandemic and is a collaborative effort of the SIFoCC membership. They provide a concise snapshot of the different ways in which justice systems had adapted in the then circumstances, and the future implications.
Second SIFoCC COVID-19 Memorandum March 2021
The Memorandum looks beyond the pandemic, to arrangements using technology that may be kept in future because they improve justice. Like the First Memorandum, it has the benefit of contributions from across the global membership of SIFoCC.
SIFoCC Memorandum on Enforcement 2nd – With International Working Group Commentary 2021
The first edition of the SIFoCC Multilateral Memorandum on Enforcement of Commercial Judgments for Money was published in summer 2019. In it, Commercial Courts outline the way in which the judgment of one jurisdiction can be enforced in another. The revised 2nd edition, published in April 2021, contains new entries from Brazil, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, South Korea and a commentary produced by an International Working Group that distils the common themes.
