Understanding modes of civil case disposition: Evidence from Slovenian courts

Dimitrova‐Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2014.04.006

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“…Any administrative errors of this type, however, should not affect the representativeness of our sample. 6 The proposed categorization of different modes of case disposition into the broad notions of settlement and resolution through court judgment is consistent with the existing approaches in the empirical literature on modes of case disposition (see, e.g., Galanter 2004, Hadfield 2004, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2014). 9 564 resolved cases (43%) were resolved via settlement.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…We therefore do not find evidence in support of the theory that parties tend to settle faster in courts where judicial workload is on average higher and where, as a result, judges are more likely to prefer less labor-intensive modes of case disposition such as settlement to more labor-intensive modes such as trial-based judgment (see, e.g., Refo 2004, Galanter 2004, Langbein 2012, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2014.…”

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“…We, therefore, do not find evidence in favor of the argument that, all else equal, overburdened judges deliberately steer the disputing parties away from the relatively more time-consuming and labor-intensive trial toward the relatively quicker and less labor-intensive settlement (see, e.g., Refo 2004, Galanter 2004, Langbein 2012, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2014.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Trial-based modes of case disposition typically take longer than settlements (see Table 1) and consume more resources. Consistent with the theory that both the disputing parties and the judges take into account the expected benefits and costs from alternative modes of case resolution (see, e.g., Refo 2004, Galanter 2004, Langbein 2012, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2014, we hypothesize (Hypothesis 5) that, all else equal, cases are settled faster if they are adjudicated in courts where the average caseload per judge (as a proxy for judicial workload) is high or the average number of judicial advisors per judge (as a proxy for court resources) is low than if they are adjudicated in courts where the opposite is true.…”

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confidence: 80%

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk regression analysis, we find that events such as court-annexed mediation and the first court session, which enable the disputing parties to refine their respective expectations about the case outcome, in general reduce case duration to settlement. The magnitude of the respective effects, however, varies with time. Completion of subsequent court sessions, in contrast, does not affect the time to settlement. Judicial workload affects the timing of settlement indirectly, via the effect on the timing of the first court session. We also examine the effect of other case and party characteristics. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: K410, K490, D020.

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“…1 With the exception of a handful of studies (see, e.g., Buscaglia and Dakolias 1999, Murrell 2001a, Gadiuta 2012Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2012a, 2012b, 2014, the existing literature is largely limited to descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis (see, e.g., Dietrich 2000, Anderson et al 2005, Ng et al 2008). In particular, aside from Kathryn Hendley's insightful analysis of Russian commercial courts (see, e.g.…”

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Despite the judiciary's central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two salient adjudicatory outcomes: whether a case was resolved via trial or settlement and if the case was tried, whether the plaintiff was awarded the initial claim. Consistent with the divergent expectations theory of litigation, we find that trial-based resolution is more likely when the case is complex and less likely when parties use mediation. Addressing sample selection and endogeneity concerns, we show that defendant's legal representation, plaintiff's profitability, and, importantly, court identity are robust predictors of plaintiff victory at trial. Thus, more than two decades after the start of transition in Slovenia, the judicial system is still a source of legal inconsistency and uncertainty. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: K400, K410, P370, D020.

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Understanding modes of civil case disposition: Evidence from Slovenian courts

Cited by 26 publications

References 35 publications

Litigation and the timing of settlement: evidence from commercial disputes

Litigation and the timing of settlement: evidence from commercial disputes

Inside Post-Socialist Courts: The Determinants of Adjudicatory Outcomes in Slovenian Commercial Disputes

Inside post-socialist courts: the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

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