The 2007 Judicial Reform and Court Performance in Egypt

El Bialy Nora ()
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El Bialy Nora: University of Hamburg (Germany)
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Review of Law & Economics, 2016, vol. 12, issue 1, 95-117

Abstract: This paper contributes to the existing literature on court performance by providing an empirical study about the performance of Egyptian First Instance Courts (FICs). A panel data model on 22 courts for 9 years is estimated to answer the following questions: (1) did the 2007 judicial reform improve the performance of Egyptian FICs? (2) What are the determinants of court output? Our results show tshat the 2007 reform has generally contributed to improving the overall resolution rate in Egyptian FICs. Delay problems related to the resolution of civil cases are however still persistent. Courts with a relatively higher load of criminal cases appear to be more productive while those with a higher load of civil cases still lag behind. Furthermore, higher levels of judicial turnover are associated with lower rates of court output, whereas the computerization of courts leads to higher resolutions. Finally, judicial seniority and the number of judges with higher academic degrees do not affect the resolution rate in FICs.

Keywords: court performance; resolution rate; Egypt; judicial reform; first instance courts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H49 H50 K41 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/rle-2014-0003

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