Council of Europe

Cooperation with the Southern African Chief Justices Forum (SACJF)

• Web-site of the SACJF
• Constitution of the Southern African Chief Justices Forum
• Co-operation agreement between the Southern African Chief Justices Forum (formerly Southern African Judges Commission - SAJC) and the Venice Commission

Recent events: 

• Annual Conference and General Meeting of the SACJF on "Contemporary Issues in the Prevention of Organised Crime”, Windhoek, Namibia, 22-25 September 2016
• SACJF Annual Conference on “Guaranteeing the Right to a Fair Trial in Africa; Show casing best practice”, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27-28 August 2015​​​

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Previous events: 

• Southern African Chief Justices Forum, Johannesburg, South Africa, 13-14 August 2010
• Southern African Chief Justices Forum, Kasane, Botswana, 6-9 August 2009
• SAJC Venice Commission Registrars Meeting (Johannesburg, 6-8 December 2007)
• SAJC Conference on “Constitutionalism: The key to Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law” (Maseru, Lesotho, 30 March - 1 April 2007)
• General Meeting (Maputo, 10-11 August 2006)
• Meetings in Venice and Strasbourg (17-20 March 2006)
• Annual general meeting (Windhoek, 11 - 14thAugust 2005)
• SAJC Conference on "Modernising the Judiciary" (Entebbe, Uganda, 4-5 February 2005)
• Second seminar for liaison officers (Windhoek, 28-19 December 2003)
• ​First seminar of liaison officers (Mangochi, Malawi, 5-6 November 2001)

Liaison officers
 

• Functions of SACJF liaison officers
• CODICES database (CODICES User's guide)
• List of SACJF contributions in CODICES
• Guidelines for the drafting of précis for CODICES
• Systematic Thesaurus version 22

Article on the co-operation between the Venice Commission and African jurisdictions:

• Buquicchio, Gianni / Dürr, Schnutz Rudolf, The Venice Commission’s Action in Africa, in Yazici, Serap / Gözler, Kemal / Göztepe, Ece, Essays in Honour of Ergun Özbudun, Yetkin, Ankara (2008), vol. II, pp. 165-174.