Six aspects of court case management systems are evaluated, including time standards, adjournment rules, and electronic system availability. The index is computed using the DB17-20 Doing Business methodology. Data originates from the World Bank's Doing Business project.
Use Cases
- Benchmark national court systems on the 'time standards for key court events' metric against peer countries.
- Analyze correlation between the 'electronic case management system for lawyers' feature and overall contract enforcement speed.
- Model judicial reform priorities by clustering countries based on scores across all six evaluated aspects.
- Track changes in the 'publicly available performance measurement reports' indicator over time for longitudinal studies.
Strengths
- Evaluates six specific, standardized aspects of court management for cross-country comparison.
- Based on a defined methodology from the DB17-20 studies, ensuring consistent scoring.
Limitations
- Specific row count, time range, and geographic coverage are not provided.
- Data may be temporally stale following the discontinuation of the Doing Business report.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Doing Business project.
- Collection Method
- Evaluation based on regulations and publicly available information on court systems.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely cross-country, but specific coverage is not provided.