More Related Content Similar to 2009 Uzelac Croatia Legal Reform Similar to 2009 Uzelac Croatia Legal Reform (20) More from Divided Societies More from Divided Societies (13) 2009 Uzelac Croatia Legal Reform1. Judicial Reform in Croatia Is The Glass (Half) Full or (Half) Empty ? Prof. Dr. ALAN UZELAC University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law [email_address] 5. “ Strategy” of judicial reform Croatian way of dealing with unpleasant jobs 10. Corruption perception index 2004 2005 2006 Judiciary 3,8 Political parties 4 Judiciary 4,4 Political parties 3,6 Judiciary 3,7 Health services 4,3 Parliament 3,6 Parliament 3,6 Economy 4,2 Health services 3,6 Economy 3,5 Parties & Parliament 4,1 18. Number of lawyers: trends 1992-2009 Year Lawyers % Interns % 1992 1221 100 380 100 1994 1782 146 483 127 1997 2100 172 550 145 2004 2493 204 965 254 2008 3427 280 1620 426 22. Judicial organization - court locations (general competence courts and specialized courts) per 100.000 inhabitants (data 2004 ) 26. Expenses of European states for their justice systems € / # inhabitants (100k) data 2002. Court budget + Legal aid expenses Austria 71,30 France 32,99 Romania 5,48 Finland 51,03 Hungary 27,00 Ukraine 2,32 Croatia 30,43 Italy 46,76 Netherlands 53,07 30. Can you see some change? 2001.-2007. Year Litigations resolved by: Judgment % Court settlement % Else % 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 73154 67805 76407 103589 87762 79612 79446 62,6 58,2 64,1 65,1 57,0 61,4 62,2 3327 2857 2565 3528 3527 2814 2742 2,8 2,5 2,2 2,0 2,3 2,2 2,1 40312 45779 40135 52376 62623 47284 45619 34,5 39,3 33,7 32,9 40,7 36,5 35,7 Year Judgment based on A full hearing % Admittance % Default % 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 55603 51832 60180 75620 62806 61309 63927 76,0 76,4 78,8 73,0 71,6 77,0 80,5 7132 6985 6720 13474 13496 8115 4945 9,7 10,3 8,8 13,0 15,4 10,2 6,2 10419 8988 9507 14495 11460 10188 10574 14,2 13,3 12,4 14,0 13,1 12,8 13,3 31. Reform as a task in European accession? Can EU accession process resolve the problem? 34. Thank you for your attention! Judicial Reform is in a Bad Need for Social Scientists! © uzelac@post.harvard.edu