One judge to rule them all: single-member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials
This paper is a discussion of whether single-member judicial panels are an effective way of accelerating the delivery of criminal justice. We use a reform which introduced single-member courts in Greece, where delays in court proceedings are common according to the European Justice Scoreboard and th...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.4048163 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4048163 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4048163 
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| Author Notes: | Theodore Alysandratos, Konstantinos Kalliris |
| Summary: | This paper is a discussion of whether single-member judicial panels are an effective way of accelerating the delivery of criminal justice. We use a reform which introduced single-member courts in Greece, where delays in court proceedings are common according to the European Justice Scoreboard and the European Court of Human Rights. We use a novel dataset of 1468 drug trafficking cases tried between June 2012 and January 2014. We introduce a new measure of efficiency, the time to issue a decision, and we find that single-member panels are as efficient as three-member ones. We take advantage of a feature of the reform to control for several confounding factors and support a causal interpretation of our findings. We complement our analysis with data from the Ministry of Justice that show single-member panels have a higher clearance rate, and with a survey of 142 judges to guide our interpretation of the results |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 05.05.2023 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 15, 2022 erstellt |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.4048163 |
| Access: | Open Access |