Research on the caseload management of courts: methodological questions

Lienhard, Andreas; Kettiger, Daniel

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“…The limited data hinders, for example, the investigation of whether different types of caseload influence judicial performance, or whether different types of administrative assistants influence the relationship between caseload and judge production. Or even whether other variables and indicators of judicial performance should be used, in addition to the production of sentences and hearings by judges (For methodological issues on court caseload management, see Lienhard & Kettiger, 2011). Future studies could investigate other possible intervening variables through qualitative studies, using as data collection, for example, interviews and focus groups.…”

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Court Caseload Management: The Role of Judges and Administrative Assistants

2017

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ResumoA gestão do acervo de processos pendentes em tribunais é essencial para garantir que os processos serão julgados de maneira célere, e isso depende de como juízes e assistentes administrativos lidam com suas cargas de trabalho. Resultados de diversos estudos indicam que um aumento no acervo de tribunais tende a gerar um aumento na produção judicial dos juízes. Entretanto alguns autores apontam que essa relação é mais complexa do que aparenta. No intuito de desenvolver um entendimento mais aprofundado dessa relação, é testado, neste trabalho, um conjunto de hipóteses diretas e de moderação. Foram utilizados dados secundários referentes a 566 juízes que trabalham em varas de primeira instância da Justiça Estadual de São Paulo, Brasil. Os resultados indicam uma relação direta e positiva entre o acervo da vara e a produção dos juízes, mas a força dessa relação varia de acordo com a especialidade da vara. Os resultados também mostram que a quantidade de assistentes administrativos, a experiência e os locais em que o juiz atua moderam a relação entre acervo e produção judicial. Os resultados contribuem para o desenvolvimento de estratégias gerenciais a fim de enfrentar o congestionamento de tribunais brasileiros.Palavras-chave: judiciário; gestão de tribunais; juízes; produção; acervo. AbstractCourt caseload management is of key importance for guaranteeing the adjudication of cases and depends on how judges and administrative assistants deal with their workload. Results from several studies indicate that an increase in court caseload tends to generate an increase in the judge's production. However, some authors argue that this relationship is far more complex. To develop a fuller understanding of this relationship we tested an array of direct and moderating hypotheses. We used secondary data from 566 judges working in first trial courts in the State Justice System of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The results indicate a direct and positive relationship between court caseload and judge production, but the strength of this relationship depends on court specialty. The findings also indicate that the number of administrative assistants, judge experience and the number of places a judge works all moderate the caseload-production relationship. The results contribute to the development of strategies to address the delays and congestion of courts, two of the main Brazilian Judiciary problems.

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Court Caseload Management: The Role of Judges and Administrative Assistants

2017

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“…9 Some studies have found that in the relationship between gender and mediation judgment rate, most female judges have higher mediation withdrawal rate and lower mediation withdrawal enforcement rate than more male judges. 10 However, the topic of this paper is to explore whether the gender of judges may affect the mediation efficiency.…”

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Study on the Relationship Between Judges and Mediation Durations of Civil Litigation Taking the Court in District B as a Sample

Zhou¹

2018

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2018)

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Over a study, it is shown that the individual factors of judges have effect on the specific implementation of litigation mediation of court. Through an analysis on 12 years of data from grass-roots courts in China, it is found that the mediation experience, work experience and genders of judges have different effects on the mediation duration of a civil litigation. By further exploration, it is also found that the existing mediation case allocation mechanism and mediation training for judges restrict the overall mediation efficiency of grass-roots court. Therefore, by cultivating more professional mediation judges, fine-tuning the mediation case allocation mechanism and reforming the training methods, it will be available to improve the overall mediation efficiency and judicial ability of a court to solve disputes and effectively alleviate litigation explosion.

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“…Although the study offers no "recipe" on how to conduct a CWA, the long list of references could provide more information (and details such as time logs, software, and so on). Leinhard, Andreas, and Daniel Kettiger. 2011 Ketterle, below), the authors' preferred method is to measure the average time per case rather than to use an events-based approach.…”

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Case-Weighting Analyses as a Tool to Promote Judicial Efficiency

2017

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Research on the caseload management of courts: methodological questions

Abstract: This article is published in a peer-reviewed section of the Utrecht Law Review

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Court Caseload Management: The Role of Judges and Administrative Assistants

Court Caseload Management: The Role of Judges and Administrative Assistants

Study on the Relationship Between Judges and Mediation Durations of Civil Litigation Taking the Court in District B as a Sample

Case-Weighting Analyses as a Tool to Promote Judicial Efficiency

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