ABSTRACT While many judicial systems in the Western World are coping with a shortage of judges, the public is not always aware of the overload and its reasons. Our claim is that the reason for this is the fact that the judicial system preferred to preserve an ideal image of the judiciary and control all information about it, rather than to publicize the judicial overload problem. In this paper, we aim to show that, until recently, the issue of judicial overload was hidden from the public eye. We deal with the importance and advantages of presenting the relevant facts to the public. We shall empirically show that the judicial system has begun to legitimize the exposure of judicial overload to the public.

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“完美的外观？”：透明，荣誉和司法稀缺的资源

摘要虽然西方世界的许多司法系统都在应对法官短缺的问题，但公众并不总是意识到超负荷现象及其原因。我们认为，这样做的原因是这样一个事实，即司法系统倾向于保留司法机关的理想形象并控制有关司法机关的所有信息，而不是公诸于世。在本文中，我们旨在表明，直到最近，司法超载的问题仍未公开。我们处理向公众展示相关事实的重要性和优势。我们将凭经验表明，司法制度已开始使司法超负荷向公众公开合法化。