CEPEJ Member: Pasi KUMPULA

Head of Development Department at the National Courts Administration

Finland - European Cyberjustice Network member (ECN)

Minna MELENDER 
Senior Specialist, Development department
National Courts Administration

National Correspondent

Minna MELENDER 
Senior specialist, Department of Development
National Courts Administration

Pilot Courts

Court of Appeal of Rovaniemi
Maarit TUKIAINEN
Judge
Valtakatu 10-12, 96200 Rovaniemi, Finland

Administrative Court of Turku
Seija KAIJANEN
Judge
PO Box 32, 20101 Turku, Finland

District Court of Southwest Finland
Anna-Liisa AUTIO
Judge
PO Box 376, 20101 Turku

Evaluation Exercise

• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2022 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2020 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2018 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2016 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2014 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2012 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2010 Edition
  • Study of 16 comparable countries (by Jean-Paul JEAN, President of the GT-EVAL working group) / 11/2010 (In France)
  • Visit report of the peer review evaluation group on judicial statistics - Oslo - 19/20 May 2010
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2008 Edition
• Finland: Evaluation exercise - 2006 Edition
• Finland: Pilot scheme

Events

• Judicial Administration in Finland Open Doors Days 2017 and 2018
• European Day of Civil Justice: 22 October and 9 December 2010

Translations of CEPEJ documents (if available):

Not available.

Links to relevant Institutions

• Ministry of Justice
• Office of the Prosecutor General
• Legal Register Centre
• Finnish Courts
• Supreme Court
• Supreme Administrative Court
• Institution of Criminology and Legal Policy (KRIMO)
• Criminal Sanctions Agency
• National Admisnistrative Office for Enforcement
• Legal Aid

Resources

• Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.)
  Finlex data bank
  Edilex
• Case-law of the higher court/s
  Finlex data bank
  Edilex

Recent developments in the judicial field

• The Rovaniemi Court of Appeal (Finland) has adapted an evaluation system for the quality assessment of justice based on the tools developed by the CEPEJ (October 2015)
• An initiative "New way of systematic management of delay reduction projects in courts - combining external expertise and internal participation", presented by the University of Technology and Ministry of Justice of Finland was awarded a special mention in the Crystal Scales of Justice competition in 2010
• Peer review on judicial statistics in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (June 2010)

Organisational chart of the system of justice

• Organisational Chart Justice Systems and courts of law (January 2019)
• Judicial system in Finland (website)