Understanding Judicial Delays in Debt Tribunals

Prasanth V. Regy () and Shubho Roy ()
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Prasanth V. Regy: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Shubho Roy: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

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Abstract: We argue that the judicial statistics that are currently collected are inadequate for understanding and solving the problem of judicial delay. We propose a new approach to collecting data, which will lead to useful insights about delays. We apply this approach to a dataset, and find that about half the time taken by cases is lost to delays. Most delays are due to the petitioners asking for more time to file documents.

Pages: 24
Date: 2017-05
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Note: Working Paper 195, 2017
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