Time efficiency as a measure of court performance: evidence from the Court of Justice of the European Union

Yeung, Timothy Yu-Cheong; Ovádek, Michal; Lampach, Nicolas

doi:10.1007/s10657-021-09722-5

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“…Azaria et al (2023) and Gupta and Bolia (2023) highlighted that the performance evaluation of a judicial system usually involves the average number of resolved and pending cases in the courts, and the clearance rate is among the most used dimensions to monitor the performances. Yeung et al (2022) underlined that the availability of this latter indicator and the disposition time measurements explain their extensive usage in judicial system evaluations. If the improved timeliness of judicial terms is the desired result, then it is important to avoid trading off quicker output for lower-quality judgements.…”

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“…full legal process or easily resolved proceedings) was investigated by Bogetoft and Wittrup (2021) and Gupta and Bolia (2024). The involvement of different numbers of lawyers and the degree of specialisation and incentives for judges was proposed by Banasik et al (2022), while Viapiana (2021) and Yeung et al (2022) investigated the involvement of proxies of financial resources for each court. Castelliano et al (2023) investigated the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) for justice systems, which has suddenly increased mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Efficiency analysis using SBM and PLS-SEM: insights from the Italian judicial system

Mazzocchi,

Quintano,

Rocca

2024

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Recent governmental concerns regarding the persistent long duration of judicial proceedings have drawn attention to efficiency issues in this sector. This paper provides insights into the Italian scenario, investigating potential relationships between Italian judicial efficiency and several latent constructs identified as relatively more significant than others. For this purpose, a two-step procedure was used, considering data envelopment analysis (DEA), precisely the slacks-based measure (SBM), and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Beyond ranking courts according to their technical efficiency, findings reveal that judicial efficiency has significant relationships with performance, quality and context features. At the same time, results do not show evidence to support a relationship with proceeding features. What emerges from the work is that the analysis of heterogeneity seems to offer relevant evaluation leverage, and significant differences appear among Italian courts. These insights and the model provided would represent a useful analysis tool for specific policy assessments, supporting the evaluation of regulatory measures and structural reforms relevant to judicial administration.

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Efficiency analysis using SBM and PLS-SEM: insights from the Italian judicial system

Mazzocchi,

Quintano,

Rocca

2024

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“…The effects of specific reforms are a useful indication of how court performance can be improved (Yeung et al, 2022). Comparisons between the efficiency of single‐member panels and that of multi‐member panels are not uncommon in the literature (Baas et al, 2010; Mori, 2011), but, as we will explain later, this paper benefits from an ideal setting for the study of single‐member court efficiency.…”

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One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials

Kalliris

Alysandratos

2023

J Empirical Legal Studies

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This paper is a discussion of whether single-member judicial panels are an effective way of accelerating the delivery of criminal justice. We use a reform which introduced singlemember courts in Greece, where delays in court proceedings are common according to the European Justice Scoreboard and the European Court of Human Rights. We use a novel dataset of 1463 drug trafficking cases tried between June 2012 and January 2014. As our measure of efficiency we use the time to issue a decision, and we find that singlemember panels are as efficient as three-member ones. We take advantage of a feature of the reform to control for several confounding factors and support a causal interpretation of our findings. We complement our analysis with a survey of 142 judges to guide our interpretation of the results.

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“…The effects of specific reforms are a useful indication of how court performance can be improved (Yeung et al, 2022). Comparisons between the efficiency of single-member panels and that of multi-member panels are not uncommon in the literature (Baas et al, 2010;Mori, 2011), but, as we will explain later, this paper benefits from an ideal setting for the study of singlemember court efficiency.…”

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One judge to rule them all: single-member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials

Alysandratos

Kalliris

2022

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Time efficiency as a measure of court performance: evidence from the Court of Justice of the European Union

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Efficiency analysis using SBM and PLS-SEM: insights from the Italian judicial system

Efficiency analysis using SBM and PLS-SEM: insights from the Italian judicial system

One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials

One judge to rule them all: single-member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials

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