1. European judicial systems: 2008 findings and regional analysis
Commission Européenne pour l’efficacité de la Justice
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice
Dr. Pim Albers
Special advisor

2. 45 Member States are included
Report presents data year 2006
Based on replies questionnaire received from Member States
3rd report (previous reports 2004 and 2006)

3. Financing of the judicial systems
Access to justice and legal aid
Court locations and use of ICT in the courts
Mediators
Facts concerning professional judges and prosecutors
Court performance
Facts concerning lawyers, enforcement agents and notaries

4. Public budget allocated to the judicial systems (courts, public prosecution and legal aid) per inhabitant

5. Total court budget allocated to the judicial system (excl
Total court budget allocated to the judicial system (excl. legal aid and prosecution) per inhabitant as percentage per capita GDP

6. Distribution of the budgetary components

7. Court infrastructure (number of geographic court locations per 100
Court infrastructure (number of geographic court locations per inhabitants

8. Court locations per inhabitant regionally compared
and the court/judicial budgets (courts, public prosecution and legal aid)

9. Level of computerization communication facilities courts - environment

10. Number of professional judges per 100.000 inhabitants

11. Number of non-judge staff per professional judge
10,4
9,1
8,2
6,9
5,4
4,5
4,3
4,2
4,0
3,9
3,8
3,7
3,6
3,4
3,3
3,2
3,1
3,0
2,9
2,8
2,7
2,6
2,5
2,3
2,1
2,0
1,7
1,4
1,3 2 4 6 8 10 12
Malta
Spain
Ireland
UK-England and Wales
UK-Scotland
Cyprus
Estonia
Serbia
Italy
Denmark
Portugal
Moldova
Montenegro
Croatia
Belgium
Turkey
Lithuania
Switzerland
FYROMacedonia
Poland
Slovakia
Azerbaijan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Czech Republic
Germany
Finland
Latvia
Austria
Hungary
Slovenia
Georgia
Monaco
Sweden
Netherlands
Bulgaria
Romania
Russian Federation
France
Norway
Luxembourg
Iceland
Number of non-judge staff per professional judge

12. (Non-)professional judges per 100.000 inhabitants regionally compared

13. Court staff compared

14. Judges’ salaries

15. Number of incoming and resolved civil litigious cases per 100
Number of incoming and resolved civil litigious cases per inhabitants

17. Number of incoming and resolved civil non-litigious cases and decisions per inhabitants (in the region)

18. Average calculated disposition time (in days)=
the number of days that cases are outstanding, or remain unresolved in court

19. Average disposition time land register and business register cases

20. Number of public prosecutors per 100.000 inhabitants
(and cases received)

21. Annual budget for the public prosecution per inhabitant in €

22. Legal professionals per 100.000 inhab

23. General conclusions: trends in Europe
Reduction geographic court locations
Stimulation of the application of e-justice
More use of ADR (especially mediation)
Increase of the budget allocated to judicial systems
More attention to the monitoring of cases with an exceptional duration
Increase of the introduction of quality measures in the courts

24. Full report can be downloaded from the cepej website (from 8 October 2008)