“…Another concern is the impact of managerial reforms on the accessibility of justice (Chelle, 2011). Part of this concern is related to the centralization of frontline courts, which is meant to rationalize the costs; however, centralizing the Belgian justice of peace in the 1990s has been suspected to decrease judges' understanding of the litigants and their knowledge of the field, while as far as citizens are concerned, it has increased the geographical distance of the courts and the subjective impression that judges are remote officials (Truffin, 2007). Similarly, Jean (2008) reports on years of reforms opposing proponents of centralization, such as city representatives or national administrative elites, and proponents of judicial decentralization, such as countryside representatives or local judges.…”