The objects of SEACJF are as follows:

1.  To promote contact and co-operation among the courts in the region.
2. To promote the rule of law, democracy and the independence of the courts in the region.
3. To promote and protect the welfare and dignity of judges in the member countries.
4. To establish a website at which judgments of the highest courts in the region can be collected.
5. To provide assistance to courts and to promote cooperation among judicial training institutions.
6. To arrange colloquia at which links between courts in the region can be strengthened and matters of common interest discussed.
7. To maintain contact and exchanges with other institutions in Africa and elsewhere having similar objects.
8. To encourage the publication and dissemination of judgments of the superior courts and the use of information technology.
9. To generally to promote the interests of the judiciaries of member countries and, where it is considered appropriate to do so, of any other country in the region.