European judicial systems – Edition 2014 (2012 data). Efficiency and quality of justice

The new Edition of the report of the European Commission for the Efciency of Justice (CEPEJ), which evaluates the functioning of the judicial systems in 45 Council of Europe’s member states and an observer state to the CEPEJ, Israël, remains in line with the process carried out since 2002. Relying on a methodology which is already a reference for collecting and processing a wide number of quantitative and qualitative judicial data, this unique study has been conceived above all as a tool for public policy aimed at improving the efciency and the quality of justice. To have the knowledge in order to be able to understand, analyse and reform, such is the objective of the CEPEJ which has prepared this report, intended for policy makers, legal practitioners, researchers as well as for those who are interested in the functioning of justice in Europe.
Contents:

1. The evaluation process of the CEPEJ
2. Public Expenditures: courts, prosecution system and legal aid
3. Access to justice
4. Users of the courts: rights and public confidence
5. Courts
6. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
7. Judges
8. Non-judge staff
9. Fair trial and court activity
10. Prosecutors
11. Status and career of judges and prosecutors
12. Lawyers
13. Execution of court decisions
14. Notaries
15. Court interpreters
16. Judicial Reforms
17. Towards more efficiency and quality in the European judicial systems