Judicial Decision-Making Toolkit

The Judicial Decision-Making Toolkit is part of a collection of toolkits for the ongoing development of courts in the region. They are designed to support change by promoting the local use, management, ownership, and sustainability of judicial development in Pacific Island Countries across the regions. The toolkit is based on the underlying assumption that decision-making and decision-writing are not separate processes. It promotes an issue-based approach, where judges identify the constituent issues in each case. The generalized pattern of analysis, the losing party's position followed by the flaw in the losing party's position is designed to produce decisions that are clear to both the writer and the reader, and results in decisions in which the losing party is made to feel heard.