Summary
General lessons. Link Increased Independence with Strong Accountability. Improve Efficiency. Follow-up on Lawmaking with Implementation and Enforcement. Take a Broad View of Legal and Judicial Reform. The Importance of Process and the Impact of Donor Influences. Setting priorities. Weak demand: focus on fundamental economic reforms. Moderate demand: continued economic reforms and judicial strengthening. Strong demand: from comprehensive to focused judicial reform.
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Conclusion: Lessons for Future Reform
THE ANALYSIS IN THIS REPORT SHOWS A MIXED PICTURE WITH REGARD to progress made on legal and judicial reform in the transition countries since the early 1990s. On the one hand, significant progress has been achieved in a number of countries in a number of areas, including independence, increased judicial training capacity, and initial steps toward judicial self-regulation and management of court administration. However, as many surveys and expert analyses show, much remains to be done to increase the capacity of both judges and their staff, reduce case backlogs and increase court efficiency, develop the proper incentives and deterrence to address both the perception and the reality of corruption in the region's judiciaries, and promote gre...
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