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Quality assurance
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Courts and Global Civil Society
Role & Function of Courts and Tribunals
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CONTENTS Examining Court Consolidation in Michigan, Judicature, Special Edition with contributions by David C Steelman, James P Hill, John D Ferry, Alton T Davis, Kurt N Hansen, and Carl Baar. Client Services in Local Courts: Principles, Standards and Benchmarks. An on-line project of the Centre for Court Policy and Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong. DIRECT LINK AVAILABLE BELOW Stephen Colbran, Judicial Performance Evaluation and Settlement Skills Natasha Thomson, Life After Woolf: The Impact of the Civil Procedure Reforms S O'Ryan & T Lansell, Benchmarking and Productivity for the Judiciary Robert E McBeth, Report on Trends in the State Courts 1999-2000 Marianne Roth, Towards Procdural Economy: Reduction of Duration and Costs of Civil List in Germany Dale H Poel, The Nova Scotia Judicial Development Project: A Final Report and Evaluation |
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van der Doelen & A Weimar, Professional Quality: The Balance between
Judicial Independence and Social Effectiveness Trema, 2001, nr. 4a (April)
F C Lauwaars was the Vice President of the District Court of Amsterdam and leader of its Professional Quality project. He and members of his team discuss the development of a system of quality assurance against the backdrop that 'the quality guarantees of the traditional legal system are inadequate, especially in view of growing demand for more systematic and external accountability to the public'. Examining Court Consolidation in Michigan, Judicature, Special Edition, 2001, Vol 85(3), 115-139 In 1996 the Michigan Supreme Court authorised six demonstration projects to determine whether consolidating local trial courts into a single court of general jurisdiction could improve the quality of the court service to the public. In this special edition of Judicature the contributions included: David C Steelman, Principal Court Management Consultant with the NCSC reports on the evaluation of the project by the National Center for State Courts in 1999 in which continuation of the project is recommended. There is an executive summary of the evaluation report at 117-119 and a commentary by Steelman, Reflections on the Process of Evaluating Trial Court Evaluation Projects in Michigan, 125-128 in which the NCSC's methodology is explained. Professor James P Hill, Rethinking the Michigan Trial Court Consolidation Experience, 117-124 in which the wisdom of consolidating is questioned along with the methodology of the NCSC. Prof Hill suggests other ways to improve efficiency and performance. John D Ferry, State Court Administrator, Assessing the Early Experience with the Michigan Court Consolidation Demonstration Projects, 129-130 describes the background to the project and the results of a follow up evaluation. Alton T Davis, Chief Justice of the 46th Circuit, one of the demonstration courts in the consolidation project, says the project was an unqualified success, The Court Consolidation Demonstration Projects - An Unqualified Success, 131-132. He lists 36 accomplishments of the project. Kurt N Hansen, Chief Justice of the 55th Circuit, Some Real Doubts About the Court Consolidation Demonstration Projects, 133 & 160, says the project failed to affect the efficiency of his court's service to the public. Professor Carl Baar, Trial Court Consolidation in Michigan in Context, 134-139 traces the history of consolidation experiments since Roscoe Pound in 1906, looks at the literature on the topic and discusses the politics of consolidation. Client Services in Local Courts: Principles, Standards and Benchmarks. An on-line project of the Centre for Court Policy and Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong. An interactive website allowing users to click between highest level principles, such as access to justice, and observable indicators, such as the signposting or accessibility of the courtrooms. In this way the site makes apparent the links between what courts are trying to do, how they do it, and how it can be monitored simply. Go to the principles, standards and benchmarks Dr Stephen Colbran, Judicial Performance Evaluation and Settlement Skills (2002) 11(4) Journal of Judicial Administration 180-204 Dr Colbran presents five measures of judicial settlement skills for use in national surveys of barristers and judges. Natasha Thomson, Life After Woolf: The Impact of the Civil Procedure Reforms (2001) 11(2) Journal of Judicial Administration 81-99 Ms Thomson presents some initial reactions to the Woolf reforms and considers some things to be learned from them. Don Weatherburn & Joanne Baker, Delays in Trial Case Processing. An Empirical Analysis of Delay in the NSW District Criminal Court (2000) 10(1) Journal of Judicial Administration 5-24 The Hon Justice S O'Ryan & Tony Lansell, Benchmarking and Productivity for the Judiciary (2000) 10(1) Journal of Judicial Administration 25-49 The principles of judicial independence and judicial accountability are discussed. Judge Robert E McBeth, Report on Trends in the State Courts 1999-2000 (2001) 40(3) Judges Journal Judge McBeth reports on electronic filing in his County District Court as the leading article in a special issue of the Journal on electronic filing and the courts. Professor Doctor Marianne Roth, Towards Procdural Economy: Reduction of Duration and Costs of Civil List in Germany (2001) 20 Civil Justice Quarterly 102 Dr Roth gives a summary of the German civil system and discusses problems with it and some solutions. David Gladwell, Modern Litigation Culture: The First Six Months of the Civil Justice Reforms in England and Wales (2000) 19 Civil Justice Quarterly 9-18 Mr Gladwell is the Head of the Civil Justice Division of the Lord Chancellor's Office. He discusses collaboration between judges, the profession and users in implementation of the reforms. Caroline Sage & Ted Wright with Carolyn Morris, Case Management Reform: A Study of the Federal Court's Individual Docket System, Law & Justice Foundation of NSW (June 2002) Dale H Poel, The Nova Scotia Judicial Development Project: A Final Report and Evaluation. Halifax, 1997 Marco Fabri, Philip M. Langbroek and Helene Pauliat
(research directors) The Administration of Justice in Europe: Towards
the Development of Quality Standards. Research Project coordinated
by the Mission de recherche Droit et Justice with the contribution of
the European Commission. Research Institute on Judicial Systems (IRSIG-CNR)
Bologna 2003. This bi-lingual publication (in French and English) includes reports on 'quality and justice' in nine countries of the European community, three eastern European countries, and Quebec. It is a valuable source on the system of each country/province, highlighting the issues of contemporary relevance for the quality of the delivery of justice in each.
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