European judicial systems – Edition 2012 (2010 data). Efficiency and quality of justice (2012)

This new edition of the report of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), which evaluates the functioning of the judicial systems of 46 Council of Europe member states, remains in line with the process carried out since 2002. It relies on a methodology, which has already proved itself, to collect and process a wide range of quantitative and qualitative judicial data. This unique study has been conceived above all as a public policy tool aimed at improving the efficiency and the quality of justice. The CEPEJ's objective is to have the knowledge in order to be able to understand, analyse and reform. This report is intended for policy makers, legal practitioners and 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