GENN, HAZEL (2010): JUDGING CIVIL JUSTICE

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

What price civil justice ? Brian

In the jurisdictions both of England and Wales and of Scotland, the civil justice system is currently the subject of intense critical appraisal. This paper considers the current status of civil justice, beginning by asking what we expect from our system of civil justice and going on to analyse the supply and demand of civil legal services in market terms. The authors conclude that there is scop...

Constructs of Justice: Beyond Civil Litigation

Civil Justice Reform: A Mechanism Design Framework

The main goal of the court system is to differentiatebetween those who obeyed the law and those who did not. We describe a mechanism design framework that facilitates the characterization of a set of procedural mechanisms that would minimize the resources used to achieve this goal. This framework can also help to formulate and evaluate procedural rules, and to identify necessary and sufficient ...

Doing Justice Intelligently in Civil Society

Empirically, justice might be immanently holistic—with procedural, distributive, restorative, and social justice positively correlated. Restorative justice may be about creating spaces where the various imperfectly correlated facets of holistic justice might cohere. State institutions of justice (such as criminal courts) with deeply embedded traditions of narrowing the meaning of justice (to pr...