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: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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03 January 2023
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Journal of empirical legal studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 233-268 |
| ISSN: | 1740-1461 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jels.12341 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12341 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jels.12341 
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| Author Notes: | Konstantinos Kalliris, Theodore Alysandratos |
| 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 1463 drug trafficking cases tried between June 2012 and January 2014. As our measure of efficiency we use 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 a survey of 142 judges to guide our interpretation of the results. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 01.08.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1740-1461 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jels.12341 |