Study Visit of the Jordanian Justice Delegation
25-27 March 2014, Bologna and Turin, Italy
Cepej key case flow indicators and some
examples from the Turin First Instance Court
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Cepej key case flow indicators
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Cepej key
case flow indicators
Pending cases: the number of cases that still have to be
dealt with by the court at a certain date (beginning and
end of the year)
Incoming cases: the number of new cases that needs to
be dealt with by the court, that have been filed during
the year of reference
Resolved cases: the number of cases that have been
dealt with by the court, during the year of reference
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Cepej key
case flow indicators
Clearance rate: indicator of the capability of the court to
cope with the caseload it is calculated dividing the
number of resolved cases by the number of incoming
cases and presented as a percentage
Disposition time: It estimates the number of days
necessary for a pending case to be solved in court. It is
calculated by dividing the 365 days of a year by the
number of resolved cases in the year of reference and
multiplying them by the number of pending cases at the
end of the year.
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Cepej key
case flow indicators
Average length: Average length to the procedure per
court instance for the year of reference, it can be
calculated on the basis of other dimensions or the actual
average of the time between the filing of the case and
the publication of the sentence closing the case for that
instance of all cases.
Backlog: number of cases (or percentage of cases) that
have not been resolved within an established timeframe
Pending cases by age: present the pending cases at a
certain date, dividing them by their age (0-6 moths, 6
months 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, more than 3 years) 5
Some examples form Turin court
caseload
Sources:
Relazione sui dati statistici anno 2012
Relazione Strasburgo II semestre 2012
Court
section
presidents
Judges
Expected
dealing with civil cases
number of
Actual
number of
Judges
Judges
Pending
01/01/2012
Court
sections
dealing with
civil cases
Court
detached
sections
dealing with
civil cases
(Now suppressed
- d.lgs. 155/2012)
Civil cases
Resolved
Pending
with
(contenzioso
ordinario)
Incoming
2012
resolved
2012
sentence
2012
31/12/2012
Average
duration in
days
Civil cases
incoming & resolved 2009-2012
Incoming
by year
Resolved
by year
Average civil cases
duration2009-2012 (days)
Court
sections
dealing with
civil cases
Court
detached
sections
dealing with
civil cases
(Now suppressed
- d.lgs. 155/2012)
Turin court
Strasbourg programme data collection areas
(the exercise is carried out every six months)
A. lavoro
Employment
B. previdenza e assistenza
cases
C. fallimentare e procedure concorsuali
D. esecuzioni immobiliari
E. esecuzioni mobiliari
F. volontaria giurisdizione e procedimenti camerali in materia di famiglia e persone
(compresi divorzi e separazioni non contenziosi ed escluse tutele, curatele e
amministrazioni di sostegno)
G. volontaria giurisdizione e procedure camerali non in materia di famiglia e persone
H. separazioni e divorzi contenziosi
I. contenzioso civile ordinario (categoria rappresentata in massima parte dai
procedimenti di cognizione ordinaria e che comprende ogni altro procedimento
contenzioso che non sia specificamente collocabile in un altro ambito)
J. procedimenti a cognizione sommaria o cautelare (esclusi decreti ingiuntivi)
K. decreti ingiuntivi (per tutte le materia complessivamente considerate)
L. tutele, curatele e amministrazioni di sostegno
Date of
reference
Employment cases
(pending cases at 31/12 2012)
Age of the pending cases: less than one
year, less than two years etc.
Number of cases
Comparison with the
previous semester
exercise
Percentage of cases by
age
Cases below and over 3 years