Recently, there has been increasing awareness of the inadecuacies judicial in the United States. Staggering costs happen both for taxpayers and litigants. The litigants and parties have to wait sometimes for many years before having their day court. There are many suggestions that have been given to ameliorate the situation, but as in branches government, changes come slowly.
One suggestion that has been made to optimize the efficiency of the system is to allow districts that have an overabundance of cases to borrow judges from other district that do not have such a backlog.
Another suggestions is to make pretrial conferences, in which judges meet the litigants and their attorneys, in order can know deeply about the issues. The theory behind the pretrial conferences are that the judges can spend less time on each cases and the parties can more readily to settle. Unfortunately, at least one study shows that pretrial conferences spend more judges time than they save, rarely result in the pretrial court, and actually we just get the result from a higher court.
Now, many states have established another method, named, small court claims, in which over small sums of money can be disposed. Such proceedings cost the litigants almost nothing. For example, in California, the parties must appear before the judges without assistant counsel. The proceedings are quite informal and there is no pleading. The litigants are only allowed to make one sentence statement of their claims. The plaintiff waives any right to a jury trial court and right to appeal the decision.
In coming years, we can expect more and more innovations in continuing effort to remedy a situation which must be remedied if the citizen who have valid claims are going to be able to have their day in court.
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One suggestion that has been made to optimize the efficiency of the system is to allow districts that have an overabundance of cases to borrow judges from other district that do not have such a backlog.
Another suggestions is to make pretrial conferences, in which judges meet the litigants and their attorneys, in order can know deeply about the issues. The theory behind the pretrial conferences are that the judges can spend less time on each cases and the parties can more readily to settle. Unfortunately, at least one study shows that pretrial conferences spend more judges time than they save, rarely result in the pretrial court, and actually we just get the result from a higher court.
Now, many states have established another method, named, small court claims, in which over small sums of money can be disposed. Such proceedings cost the litigants almost nothing. For example, in California, the parties must appear before the judges without assistant counsel. The proceedings are quite informal and there is no pleading. The litigants are only allowed to make one sentence statement of their claims. The plaintiff waives any right to a jury trial court and right to appeal the decision.
In coming years, we can expect more and more innovations in continuing effort to remedy a situation which must be remedied if the citizen who have valid claims are going to be able to have their day in court.
