On 26th August, 2025, the Foundation successfully facilitated the final roundtable and validation workshop on the Code of Judicial Conduct for the Judiciary of South Sudan. The final roundtable and validation workshop, which was held in Juba, South Sudan, was attended by selected members of South Sudan’s Judiciary.
The workshop validated outstanding amendments to the Code of Judicial Conduct, which had been proposed during the March 2025 validation workshop. It also addressed comments which arose during the final proofreading of the Code. This exercise yielded an Amended Code of Judicial Conduct, 2025, which was subsequently signed by the Rt Hon Chief Justice of the Republic of South Sudan, Justice Dr Benjamin Baak Deng. The Judiciary now has an amended Code of Judicial Conduct, 2025.
The Amended Code of Judicial Conduct is the culmination of a three-year process, which entailed holding workshops on judicial ethics with almost all the Justices and Judges of South Sudan’s Judiciary, followed by roundtables with select members of the Judiciary, who were tasked with further fine-tuning the recommendations from the workshops into possible amendments to the Code.
The validation workshop was attended by senior members of South Sudan’s Judiciary, including the Chief Justice, Rt Hon Justice Dr Benjamin Baak Deng and the Judiciary’s Director of Training, Justice William Kaya Pacifico. The selected members of the Judiciary who attended the roundtable were drawn from various levels of South Sudan’s Judiciary including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and various lower-level courts.
This roundtable was implemented with the generous financial assistance of the European Union within the framework of the project ‘Supporting Constitution-Making, Legal Harmonisation and Judicial Reform in South Sudan’.