A Journey of Transition

This issue of the International Journal for Court Administration (Journal) is a transitional one. As you can see, there are some exciting changes in the layout and presentation of the journal, that are intended to improve your reading experience and increase the appeal to the Journal’s diverse international audiences. The refreshing new look is partly also a consequence of our new partnership with Ubiquity Press, which has now taken over from Utrecht University as the journal’s international publisher. We are confident that our readers, sponsors and contributors alike will enjoy the benefits of the extensive reach and indexing services that our new publisher offers to the journal in numerous outlets around the world. Of course, we would like to thank the team at Utrecht University for its generous support over the previous 12 years, without which the Journal’s progression to the flagship international outlet in court administration would be difficult to imagine. We begin by extending our gratitude to Philip Langbroek, the Journal’s inaugural Managing Editor who, with the assistance of Markus Zimmer, IACA’s founding president and Journal Executive Editor, gave birth to the Journal and nursed it through its infancy. Philip has decided the time has come to pass the editorial management torch on to our new managing editors, although he will continue to serve as a Journal editor. Over time, Philip took the initiative to have the Journal’s contents peer-reviewed and recognized by the U.S. government’s Library of Congress and its contents listed in leading international scholarly databases, providing online access to its contents to a worldwide community. He also tirelessly promoted the Journal in international circles, building its reputation both among judicial and justice system professionals and academic and research communities in court management and administration. Overtime, he cultivated the interest of distinguished professionals, scholars and researchers in submitting their work for publication in the Journal. We owe him our collective thanks for his prodigious efforts and wish him well in his new endeavours. Next, you will see that there are some new additions to the Journal’s editorial board, so please allow us to introduce and welcome our two new (co)managing editors, Dr Gar Yein Ng from Buckingham University in the UK and Dr Tim Bunjevac, from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gar Yein is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Buckingham. She has taught comparative law in the fields of constitutional law and human rights. Gar Yein’s most recent publications cover issues of judicial skills, the training of judges and the role of judges vis-a-vis the legislator from a comparative perspective. Previously, she has been an independent researcher in areas such as court and justice management, public law and procedural law, particularly at the intersection between law and technology. Gar Yein has continued to