The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice and evaluation of legal systems Council of Eur - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 11
About This Presentation
Title:

The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice and evaluation of legal systems Council of Eur

Description:

The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice and evaluation of legal ... Country assistance of Malta and Switserland (Mediation), Croatia and Slovenia ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:98
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 12
Provided by: palb
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice and evaluation of legal systems Council of Eur


1
The European Commission for the Efficiency of
Justice and evaluation of legal systems (Council
of Europe)
Dr. Pim Albers Ministry of Justice of the Netherl
ands (bureau) member of the CEPEJ and chair Of C
EPEJ-GT-EVAL
2
What is the Council of Europe?
  • It is the oldest political intergovernmental
    organisation (founded in 1949)
  • 46 Member States in Europe
  • Observer States (US, Canada, Japan, Mexico and
    Holy See)

3
Aims of the Council of Europe
  • The Council was set up to
  • defend human rights, parliamentary democracy
    and the rule of law, develop continent-wide
    agreements to standardise member countries'
    social and legal practices, promote awareness
    of a European identity based on shared values and
    cutting across different cultures.

4
Promoting rule of law and efficiency of justice
  • European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
  • 20th Ministers of Justice Conference (Budapest)
    promoting access to justice, stimulation of ADR,
    simplification of court documents, efficient
    system of legal aid
  • 23th Ministers of Justice Conference (London)
    measures to promote the efficiency of justice and
    improving the functioning of the courts

5
Expert Committee on Efficiency of Justice (CJ-EJ)
  • Main tasks
  • To elaborate a mechanism to enable States to
    examine the results achieved by different legal
    systems in the light of those principles by using
    amongst other things, common statistical criteria
    and means of evaluation

6
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice
(CEPEJ 2002)
  • Examine results achieved by different legal
    systems using statistics and means of
    evaluation
  • Identify problems and areas of improvement in the
    area of legal systems
  • Country assistance
  • Suggestions from drafting new legal instruments
    of modification of current ones

7
Results of this Commission
  • Formulation of recommendations in the justice
    area
  • Country assistance of Malta and Switserland
    (Mediation), Croatia and Slovenia (Delays in
    court proceedings), Netherlands (Territorial
    jurisdiction of courts)
  • Conferences (improving human rights (April The
    Hague 2004), The ideal civil trial (Brussels
    2004) and evaluating European judicial systems
    (The Hague 2005)
  • Report European Judicial systems 2002
  • Framework programme towards an optimum and
    foreseeable timeframes

8
WWW.COE.INT/CEPEJ
9
Evaluation of legal systems (pilot scheme)
  • Working party CEPEJ-GT1 (8 experts France,
    Netherlands, Poland, UK, Portugal, Italy,
    Romania, Croatia) and the World Bank (Observer)
  • Starting point paper evaluating judicial
    systems a balance between variety and
    generalisation (2003)
  • Development of the draft pilot-scheme (108
    questions)
  • Test-round in 2003 with the countries
    participating at CEPEJ-GT1
  • Spring 2004 sending questionnaires to the Member
    States
  • Adoption of the final report in December 2004
  • Conference and presentation of the report in May
    2005 The Hague

10
Usability of the report for policymaking
  • Three examples
  • Number and size of first instance courts
  • Length of court proceedings (at the level of the
    appeal courts)
  • Disciplinary proceedings and sanctions against
    judges

11
Future ambitions of the CEPEJ
  • Improvement of the questionnaire
  • Planning of a new evaluation round at the end of
    2005
  • New plans for country assistance
  • Presentation results of the taskforce
    CEPEJ-TF-DEL (European network of pilot courts)
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com