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Quality Management in Courts Bert Maan
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What is quality? Two sorts of quality: – Legal quality – Quality as organisation Internal external
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Quality as organisation To what extent is the organisation able – to perform its function – to fulfil its mission
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Organisation Public Expectations – Speed – Efficiency – Behaviour and attitude – Information
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Courthouse Identity Opening hours Security Showing the way Waiting rooms Waiting time
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Services Availability of tea/coffee; Phones Registries Toilets PM: The evaluation of quality is the difference between the performance and the expectation.
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Human resources Selection Training and education Personal development – career
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Combination Legal task Public organisation Expectations by the public Well functioning of judges and staff
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Control through an integrated system. EFQS or INK – or similar
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Leadership Should not be too far away Should be consistent Should be supported by organisation
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Links Between strategy and leadership; Influence on employees at court Influence on required tool Control of the processes Assessment Final result Learn and improve
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Measuring MWO (employees survey) Customer survey Comments evaluation by society – Stakeholders – Media
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In court Speed and consistence are part of quality – Registering incoming cases and output – Duration of pending cases – Efficiency
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Organisational quality – Performance Management information each month – Incoming cases; – Finished cases » Withdrawn » Settled » Interlocutory judgement » Final judgement
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Legal quality Who determines? – Colleagues – Lawyers – Parties – Complaints – Media – Appeal court
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Methods Conferences with lawyers Meetings to discuss Jurisprudence Own cases in appeal
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Behaviour Training staff – (How to deal with angry people) Intervision Sitting with three judges Role of ushers
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Legal quality – Monitoring through Advocates Publication (rechtspraak.nl) Complaints Media Appeals/cassation
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Ensuring quality – Case-law discussion – Presentations – Internal training/education; – Permanent education SSR – Intervision – Courses elsewhere
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Human resources policy-tools – periodic interview head of section – annual talks with court president – promotion – personal file
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Quality - risks Identify risks: judge alone/single judge Information on judges – Level of cooperation – Clerk/ judicial assistant – Report misbehaviour (informal)
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What to measure Average duration; Management of old cases Percentage appeals Number of complaints Number of impartiality challenges
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Measuring qualıty court MWO (employees survey) Customer survey Comments evaluation by society – Stakeholders – Media
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Recommendations Keywords – Control – Management information – Quality of human resources – Public dimension – Leadership – Professionality
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Result Using the tools, you wil obtain: – Management information; – Integrated human resources policy – Information about quality – Outcome of customer review – Result of employee review – Annual reporting
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Trust Management of expectatıons In order to gain or maintain the confidence of society, transparency is the key word: – Say what you do – Do what you say – Show that you do what you say
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Questions/observations? Teçukkur ederim!
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