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Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach
International Review of Law and Economics ( IF 1.216 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2020.105953
Alessandro Melcarne , Giovanni B. Ramello , Rok Spruk

Improving judicial performance in order to enhance the business environment has been a policy goal for many governments in the last decades. Following the suggestions of several international organizations, most countries have tried to speed up their case resolution systems by streamlining judicial procedure. However, not as much attention has been devoted to test the potential drawbacks of similar reforms in terms of supplying a quicker but yet qualitatively inferior justice, thus contradicting the well-known legal maxim justice delayed is justice denied. The present work wishes to contribute to the empirical literature on the topic by proposing two alternative ways to further disentangle the relationship between judicial performance and judicial quality. Exploiting a dataset of 171 countries for the 2003–2016 time period, we find statistically significant evidence of a strong and negative relationship between courts’ delay and countries’ quality of the justice. While the intrinsic limits of this kind of institutional empirical analysis suggest caution when interpreting our estimates as proof of causality, we present more robust evidence suggesting that countries characterized by faster judiciaries seem to be equally not affected by a deterioration of the quality of justice, thus confirming the aforementioned maxim, at least descriptively.



中文翻译:

司法延误了吗?一种经验方法

在过去的几十年中,提高司法绩效以改善商业环境一直是许多政府的政策目标。遵循几个国际组织的建议,大多数国家都试图通过简化司法程序来加速其案件解决系统。但是,在提供更快但质量上较差的司法方面,没有太多的注意力用于检验类似改革的潜在弊端,因此,与公知的法律最大化正义相抵触,就是司法被否定。。本工作希望通过提出两种可供选择的方法来进一步弄清司法绩效与司法质量之间的关系,从而为有关该主题的经验文献做出贡献。利用2003年至2016年这段时间的171个国家的数据集,我们发现在统计学上具有重要意义的证据表明,法院的延误与国家司法质量之间存在强而消极的关系。虽然这种制度性实证分析的内在局限性在将我们的估计解释为因果关系的证据时建议谨慎,但我们提供了更强有力的证据表明,司法机构较快的国家似乎同样不受司法质量恶化的影响,因此至少在描述上确认上述准则。

更新日期:2020-11-01
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