Quality Management in Courts
Quality Management in Courts. Bert Maan. What is quality?. Two sorts of quality: Legal quality Quality as organisation Internal external. Quality as organisation. To what extent is the organisation able to perform its function to fulfil its mission. Organisation. Public
Quality Management in Courts
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Quality Management in Courts Bert Maan
What is quality? • Two sorts of quality: • Legal quality • Quality as organisation • Internal • external
Quality as organisation • To what extent is the organisation able • to perform its function • to fulfil its mission
Organisation • Public • Expectations • Speed • Efficiency • Behaviour and attitude • Information
Courthouse • Identity • Opening hours • Security • Showing the way • Waiting rooms • Waiting time
Services • Availability of tea/coffee; • Phones • Registries • Toilets • PM: The evaluation of quality is the difference between the performance and the expectation.
Human resources • Selection • Training and education • Personal development – career
Combination • Legal task • Public organisation • Expectations by the public • Well functioning of judges and staff
Control through an integrated system. • EFQS or INK – or similar
Leadership • Should not be too far away • Should be consistent • Should be supported by organisation
Links • Between strategy and leadership; • Influence on employees at court • Influence on required tool • Control of the processes • Assessment • Final result • Learn and improve
Measuring • MWO (employees survey) • Customer survey • Comments evaluation by society • Stakeholders • Media
In court • Speed and consistence are part of quality • Registering incoming cases and output • Duration of pending cases • Efficiency
Organisational quality • Performance • Management information each month • Incoming cases; • Finished cases • Withdrawn • Settled • Interlocutory judgement • Final judgement
Legal quality Who determines? • Colleagues • Lawyers • Parties • Complaints • Media • Appeal court
Methods • Conferences with lawyers • Meetings to discuss • Jurisprudence • Own cases in appeal
Behaviour • Training staff • (How to deal with angry people) • Intervision • Sitting with three judges • Role of ushers
Legal quality • Monitoring through • Advocates • Publication (rechtspraak.nl) • Complaints • Media • Appeals/cassation
Ensuring quality • Case-law discussion • Presentations • Internal training/education; • Permanent education SSR • Intervision • Courses elsewhere
Human resources policy-tools • periodic interview head of section • annual talks with court president • promotion • personal file
Quality - risks • Identify risks: judge alone/single judge • Information on judges • Level of cooperation • Clerk/ judicial assistant • Report misbehaviour (informal)
What to measure • Average duration; • Management of old cases • Percentage appeals • Number of complaints • Number of impartiality challenges
Measuring qualıty court • MWO (employees survey) • Customer survey • Comments evaluation by society • Stakeholders • Media
Recommendations • Keywords • Control • Management information • Quality of human resources • Public dimension • Leadership • Professionality
Result • Using the tools, you wil obtain: • Management information; • Integrated human resources policy • Information about quality • Outcome of customer review • Result of employee review • Annual reporting
Trust • Management of expectatıons • In order to gain or maintain the confidence of society, transparency is the key word: • Say what you do • Do what you say • Show that you do what you say
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