The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice


Strasbourg, 19 September 2012

CEPEJ-OJ(2012)2Prov1

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF JUSTICE
(CEPEJ)

NETWORK OF PILOT COURTS

7th Plenary Meeting
Gozo, Malta
27 September 2012

DRAFT AGENDA

Chairperson: John STACEY, President of the CEPEJ

    1. Opening of the meeting

    2. Introduction to the CEPEJ’s evaluation report: “European judicial system – Edition 2012”

    Introduction by Stéphane LEYENBERGER,Secretary of the CEPEJ

Reference documents
Evaluation Report “European judicial systems – Edition 2012"
Errata to the report

    3. Information by the Pilot courts

Pilot courts are invited to inform the group of any relevant reform or initiative undertaken by the court (best practice, for instance) and which might be of interest for the other pilot courts.

    4. SATURN Centre on judicial time management: towards a European Observatory of judicial timeframes

Rapporteur: Jacques BÜHLER, Chair of the Steering Group of the SATURN Centre of the CEPEJ

    § Strategic Plan for the SATURN Centre
    § Data collection on timeframes of judicial proceedings from the pilot courts
    § Cooperation of the pilot courts on a long term perspective
    § Implementation of the court coaching programme for implementing SATURN tools

Working documents
Guidelines for judicial time management (EUGMONT)
CEPEJ(2008)8Rev

A strategic plan for the SATURN Centre
CEPEJ-SATURN(2011)5Rev2

Working document

    6. Discussion in clusters

    All participants are invited to choose to participate in one of the three following clusters.

    Cluster 1: Seeking for best practices on court file management and transmission of cases from one judge to another judge

Moderator: Jacques BÜHLER, Chair of the Steering Group of the SATURN Centre of the CEPEJ

Cluster 2: The role of judicial experts in the quality of justice
Moderator: François PAYCHÈRE, Chairman of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

    Cluster 3: Is it possible to define guidelines on the organisation and accessibility of court premises?

Moderator: Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Secretary of the CEPEJ

Working document

Seeking for best practices on court file management and transmission of cases from one judge to another judge
CEPEJ(2012)8
Document prepared by Jacques BÜHLER

7. Speech by Dr Chris Said MP LL.D, Minister for Justice, Dialogue and the Family of Malta

    8. Any other business

    9. Conclusions of the meeting

Reference documents
Report of the 6th plenary meeting of the pilot courts
CEPEJ(2011)9

Abridged report of the 19th CEPEJ plenary meeting
CEPEJ(2012)6