The Research Division of the Judiciary was established in 1994 under a Royal Command. It has conducted research on the sources of Bhutanese laws, court etiquette and manners, formal address and title, legal terminology, and Buddhist and Bhutanese architecture.

Presently, the Research Division also helps in the conduct of pre-service training as well as guidance in Bhutanese literature and history.

The judiciary is a dynamic institution. As such its staffs has to be equipped with new skills through training and workshops. With the above objective, in 1991 formal legal education was initiated when the first batch of selected graduates was sent to India to study the three-year course in law. The process continued with the Royal Command of His Majesty, wherein the National Legal Course (called Post Graduate Diploma in National Law since 2002) was inaugurated in 1995.

The first batch of law graduates was sent abroad for Master of Laws degree in 1996. In the same year, His Majesty commanded the High Court to begin formally training jabmi (legal counsel), which have always been included, along with barmi and ngotsap, in the traditional right to legal counsel in Bhutan. Since then about 160 jabmis were trained.

To enhance greater transparency, strengthen the Rule of Law and provide a just and efficient legal system, proper training for the bench clerks was started. Accordingly, the first batch of bench clerks was trained at the Royal Institute of Management in 1997.