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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare the courtroom
   • Apply security procedures, ensuring courtroom amenities are checked and adjusted as required.
   • Set up and arrange equipment and technology.
   • Restore courtroom on completion of sitting.
2. Follow court procedures and protocols
   • Prepare court forms and documents and ensure they are used correctly.
   • Make proclamations.
   • Monitor modes of address, manner and movement in the courtroom and instruct court users and the public on protocols.
   • Accommodate special court requirements.
3. Manage court appearances
   • Call persons and report non-appearances to the court.
   • Escort persons required to be accompanied to and from their station in the courtroom.
   • Administer oaths and affirmations if required, in accordance with the type of proceedings and client preference for the particular oath or affirmation.
   • Use court technology at the direction of the presiding official and manage contingencies.
4. Take action in accordance with court outcomes
   • Take action relating to orders of the court.
   • Identify documentary requirements of court outcomes and complete.
5. Prepare the courtroom
   • Apply security procedures, ensuring courtroom amenities are checked and adjusted as required.
   • Set up and arrange equipment and technology.
   • Restore courtroom on completion of sitting.
6. Follow court procedures and protocols
   • Prepare court forms and documents and ensure they are used correctly.
   • Make proclamations.
   • Monitor modes of address, manner and movement in the courtroom and instruct court users and the public on protocols.
   • Accommodate special court requirements.
7. Manage court appearances
   • Call persons and report non-appearances to the court.
   • Escort persons required to be accompanied to and from their station in the courtroom.
   • Administer oaths and affirmations if required, in accordance with the type of proceedings and client preference for the particular oath or affirmation.
   • Use court technology at the direction of the presiding official and manage contingencies.
8. Take action in accordance with court outcomes
   • Take action relating to orders of the court.
   • Identify documentary requirements of court outcomes and complete.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

applying legislation, rules, and organisational practices and procedures relating to court functions

using problem-solving skills in response to contingencies

dealing effectively with different stakeholders, including at least one of:

judicial support officers

associates

court reporters

interpreters

sheriff’s officers

parties in custody

instructing court users

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

courts administration management, procedures and protocols

court operating procedures and protocols

principles of judicial independence

organisational policies and procedures relating to carrying out court orderly functions

oaths, affirmations and their administration

court technology

public sector legislation in the context of court functions

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