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The "Crystal Scales of
Justice" Prize
 Since 2005, the Council of Europe and the European Commission are
organising together a competition to discover and highlight innovative and efficient
practices used in European courts for court organisation or for
the conduct of judicial proceedings (for example, initiatives devised by a court president, a registry, a Bar) and deserving
to be drawn to the attention of policy-makers and the judicial
community so as to improve the functioning of the public justice
system.
In the past, the Prize concerned either criminal (2009) or civil
justice (2005, 2006 and 2008). For the first time in 2010, the "Crystal Scales of Justice"
Prize covered at the same time the fields of criminal and civil justice.
In 2012, for this 6th
edition, the Prize will again cover the
civil justice field, and in particular innovative practices in
the field of civil justice, aimed to improve efficiency and
functioning of the judicial system, procedures
and
the courts'
organisation.
A representative of each of the
4
selected projects
has been
invited to the Prize Award ceremony
which
took
place at the main event of the European Day of
Civil Justice,
in Vilnius, on 25 October 2012.
 The Winner of the 2012 Edition
of the Crystal Scales of Justice Prize in the
Regional Court of Antwerp
(Belgium), for his
efforts consented to
the follow-up of judicial expertises [presentation
in French].
Video presentation of the initiative "Follow-up of
judicial expertises" from the Regional Court of Antwerp
[source:
www.klak.be]
Motivation of the jury
The three projects that has also been awarded during
this ceremony are:
The co-hearing of the judge to family
affairs – Auditor of children – Regional Court of
Tarascon
(France)
[presentation in French]
Judicial data
warehouse and performance dashboards – Supreme Court of
Slovenia (Slovenia)
Motivation of the jury
Lexnet – General
Secretariat of justice administration (Spain)
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Powerpoint presentation /
Video presentation
Usefull ressources
Press release announcing the winner [26 October
2012]
Press release announcing shortlisted projects [15
October 2012]
Programme
European
Commission - Civil Justice website |
