European judicial systems: 2008 findings and regional analysis Commission Européenne pour l’efficacité de la Justice European Commission for the Efficiency.

European judicial systems: 2008 findings and regional

analysisCommission Européenne pour l’efficacité de la Justice

European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice

Dr. Pim AlbersSpecial advisor

• 45 Member States are included• Report presents data year 2006• Based on replies questionnaire received

from Member States• 3rd report (previous reports 2004 and

2006)

• Financing of the judicial systems• Access to justice and legal aid• Court locations and use of ICT in the courts• Mediators• Facts concerning professional judges and prosecutors• Court performance• Facts concerning lawyers, enforcement agents and notaries

• Public budget allocated to the judicial systems (courts, public prosecution and legal aid) per inhabitant

168

130

121

114

106

99

99

99

82

81

77

76

72

70

69

68

60

59

54

53

50

41

40

39

30

30

28

28

26

26

25

22

22

18

17

13

13

9

7

5

4

3

2

0 € 20 € 40 € 60 € 80 € 100 € 120 € 140 € 160 € 180 €

Monaco

UK-Northern Ireland

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Germany

UK-England & Wales

UK-Scotland

Netherlands

Belgium

Sweden

Andorra

Slovenia

Norway

Italy

Austria

Spain

Iceland

Finland

Croatia

France

Cyprus

Ireland

Poland

Hungary

Greece

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Malta

Lithuania

Estonia

Russian Federation

Latvia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Romania

Montenegro

FYROMacedonia

Bulgaria

Ukraine

Turkey

Georgia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Moldova

• Total court budget allocated to the judicial system (excl. legal aid and prosecution) per inhabitant as percentage per capita GDP

0,67%

0,62%

0,44%

0,43%

0,42%

0,34%

0,33%

0,31%

0,26%

0,25%

0,25%

0,24%

0,23%

0,23%

0,22%

0,21%

0,20%

0,20%

0,19%

0,18%

0,18%

0,17%

0,17%

0,14%

0,14%

0,13%

0,13%

0,11%

0,10%

0,10%

0,08%

0,08%

0,08%

0,07%

0,07%

0,05%

0,00% 0,10% 0,20% 0,30% 0,40% 0,50% 0,60% 0,70%

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia

Poland

Slovenia

FYROMacedonia

Ukraine

Portugal

Hungary

Bulgaria

Russian Federation

Monaco

Lithuania

Slovakia

UK-Northern Ireland

Andorra

Switzerland

Latvia

Czech Republic

Georgia

Estonia

Romania

Italy

Malta

Netherlands

Sweden

Finland

France

Moldova

Iceland

UK-England and Wales

Denmark

Armenia

UK-Scotland

Azerbaijan

Norway

Ireland

• Distribution of the budgetary components

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Czech Republic

Luxembourg

Andorra

FYROMacedonia

Hungary

Estonia

Azerbaijan

Romania

Malta

Finland

Moldova

Switzerland

Montenegro

Denmark

Slovenia

Sweden

Belgium

Italy

Monaco

Latvia

Portugal

Serbia

Armenia

Ukraine

Croatia

Russian Federation

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Norway

Cyprus

Netherlands

Germany

Lithuania

Bulgarie

Austria

Slovakia

Poland

France

Georgia

Ireland

UK-Scotland

UK-Northern Ireland

SALARIES

COMPUTARISATION

JUSTICE EXPENSES

COURT BUILDINGS

INVESTMENTS

TRAINING

Other declared

Other calculated

• Court infrastructure (number of geographic court locations per 100.000 inhabitants

• Court locations per inhabitant regionally compared

• and the court/judicial budgets (courts, public prosecution and legal aid)

• Level of computerization communication facilities courts - environment

• Number of professional judges per 100.000 inhabitants

54,5

50,0

43,3

37,2

36,8

33,8

30,6

29,1

28,4

28,2

27,1

25,8

24,8

24,5

23,7

22,2

22,0

21,5

21,5

21,3

20,7

20,2

19,8

17,8

17,4

17,1

16,5

15,7

14,9

14,8

13,9

12,7

12,7

12,0

11,9

11,0

10,9

10,1

9,0

8,3

7,0

6,6

6,2

5,8

5,6

4,4

3,1

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Monaco

Slovenia

Croatia

Montenegro

Luxembourg

Serbia

FYROMacedonia

Czech Republic

Greece

Hungary

Andorra

Poland

Slovakia

Germany

Bulgaria

Latvia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lithuania

Russian Federation

UK-Northern Ireland

Romania

Austria

European average

Estonia

Portugal

Finland

Switzerland

Iceland

Belgium

Ukraine

Sweden

Netherlands

Cyprus

Moldova

France

Italy

Norway

Spain

Turkey

Malta

UK-England & Wales

Denmark

Georgia

Azerbaijan

Armenia

UK-Scotland

Ireland

• Number of non-judge staff per professional judge

10,49,1

8,26,9

5,44,5

4,34,34,2

4,03,93,83,83,73,73,63,6

3,43,33,23,2

3,13,03,02,92,82,82,82,82,72,62,62,62,5

2,32,12,02,0

1,71,4

1,3

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

MaltaSpain

IrelandUK-England and Wales

UK-ScotlandCyprusEstoniaSerbia

ItalyDenmarkPortugalMoldova

MontenegroCroatia

BelgiumTurkey

LithuaniaSwitzerland

FYROMacedoniaPoland

SlovakiaAzerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegovina Czech Republic

GermanyFinland

LatviaAustria

HungarySloveniaGeorgiaMonacoSweden

NetherlandsBulgaria

RomaniaRussian Federation

FranceNorway

LuxembourgIceland

• (Non-)professional judges per 100.000 inhabitants regionally compared

• Court staff compared

• Judges’ salaries

• Number of incoming and resolved civil litigious cases per 100.000 inhabitants

• Number of incoming and resolved civil non-litigious cases and decisions per 100.000 inhabitants (in the region)

Average calculated disposition time (in days) =

the number of days that cases are outstanding, or remain unresolved in court

• Average disposition time land register and business register cases

• Number of public prosecutors per 100.000 inhabitants

• (and cases received)

• Annual budget for the public prosecution per inhabitant in €

Legal professionals per 100.000 inhab

General conclusions: trends in Europe

• Reduction geographic court locations• Stimulation of the application of e-justice• More use of ADR (especially mediation)• Increase of the budget allocated to judicial systems• More attention to the monitoring of cases with an exceptional

duration• Increase of the introduction of quality measures in the courts

• Full report can be downloaded from the cepej website (from 8 October 2008)

• http://www.coe.int/cepej