Improving the Performance of Justice Institutions
This paper presents a selection of experiences from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries in managing justice institutions which are the most relevant for performance improvement of their counterparts in Latin Ameri...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Colombia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/244521468230960192/Improving-the-performance-of-justice-institutions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27451 |
| Summary: | This paper presents a selection of
experiences from Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) countries in managing justice
institutions which are the most relevant for performance
improvement of their counterparts in Latin America. The
scope of the paper is mostly limited to the courts, but
comprises all types of courts: specialized courts as well as
courts of general jurisdiction, civil as well as criminal
and administrative courts, first instance as well as
appellate and supreme courts. Issues of legal reform,
judicial training, alternative dispute resolution or access
for the poor are not considered in this paper. The first
chapter provides an overview of the justice sector reform
experience in Latin America over the last two decades, and
how these reforms coincide with or follow OECD country
trends. The second chapter outlines the context of the
debates regarding the performance and quality of justice
services in OECD countries prior to the 1990s. The third
chapter discusses the transition from traditional justice
reform approaches in OECD countries to the New Public
Management (NPM) approaches that began in the 1990s. The
fourth chapter presents five major cases of reforms in
public expenditure, human resources, and organizational
restructuring in the justice sectors of five different
countries. The fifth chapter describes recent trends in OECD
countries regarding quality controls in court service
delivery which share approaches with the private sector. The
paper concludes with some suggestions about areas where
Latin American judiciaries may benefit from experiences of
OECD countries. |
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