Documents et rapports
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Community based paralegalism in the Philippines : from social movements to democratization (anglais)
Community-based paralegalism has been active in the Philippines for the past 30 years, and yet its contribution to access to justice and the advancement of the rights and entitlements of the poor has been...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 86000 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Franco, Jennifer ,Soliman, Hector ,Cisnero, Maria Roda
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Examining the effectiveness of legal empowerment as a pathway out of poverty : a case study of BRAC (anglais)
This paper examines the current status of justice and dispute-resolution mechanisms in Bangladesh, ranging from the formal justice system to the traditional shalish (a form of dispute resolution), and...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 84662 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kolisetty, Akhila
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Public-private partnerships in prison construction and management (anglais)
Over recent years lower income countries have shown increasing interest in the potential benefits of public private partnerships in the prison field. This paper opens with a brief survey of the history...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 83347 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Richards,Rob Allen,English,Paul B.
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Drug treatment court concept : the jamaican drug courts (anglais)
The Drug Treatment Court (DTC) model was conceived out of the need to solve the numerous and intractable problems that drug related cases create for court systems. A DTC is generally seen as a court that...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 77430 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haisley, Stephane Jackson
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Developing specialized court services : international experiences and lessons learned (anglais)
Court specialization is commonly considered to be an important reform initiative to advance the development of a successful judicial system. Court specialization is thought useful even to address broader...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 81946 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gramckow,Heike P.,Walsh,Barry Raymond
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Case flow management : key principles and the systems to support them (anglais)
It has become increasingly clear that courts across the globe must do more to better organize and manage their caseload and that automation alone is not the answer. In response to this need, case flow...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 81121 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gramckow,Heike P.,Nussenblatt,Valerie
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'To whom do the people take their issues?' The contribution of community-based paralegals to access to justice in South Africa (anglais)
Paralegals provide a crucial link to justice services and legal redress in South Africa, particularly for the rural poor. Although post-Apartheid constitutional reforms guaranteed a broad range of rights...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 79339 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Drage, Katherine,Dugard, Jackie
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Hybrid justice in Vanuatu : the Island courts (anglais)
Island courts have been in operation in Vanuatu since 1984. Official documents have hitherto provided little information on their practical operations or utility, and our preliminary research in 2010 found...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 80192 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goddard,Michael,Otto,Leisande
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Estimating staffing needs in the justice sector (arabe)
Justice system agencies around the world continue to seek adequate methods to estimate staffing needs. Especially when caseload rise and budgets are limited, the pressure is on to justify adequate staffing...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 72928 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Estimating staffing needs in the justice sector (anglais)
Justice system agencies around the world continue to seek adequate methods to estimate staffing needs. Especially when caseload rise and budgets are limited, the pressure is on to justify adequate staffing...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 72928 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Court auctions : effective processes and enforcement agents (anglais)
This paper considers the historical origins and efficacy of enforcement of civil court judgments, with a special focus on court auctions. It reviews the procedural and practical options available to courts...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 66950 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gramckow,Heike P.
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Can OHADA increase legal certainty in Africa? (anglais)
This paper describes the origins, structure, and practical impact of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA). It analyzes the institutional framework created via the OHADA...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 65989 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beauchard,Renaud François,Kodo, Mahutodji Jimmy Vital
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Preventing corruption in prosecution offices : understanding and managing for integrity (anglais)
Considering the essential role of prosecutors in upholding the rule of law and pursuing government accountability, the integrity of prosecutorial operations is of special importance. At the same time...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 65510 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dr. Gramckow, Heike
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Justice development programming in fragile and conflict-affected areas : perspectives of two leaders in justice administration (anglais)
This spoken presentation profiles the efforts of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan to produce effective plans for developing that court and the judicial system in general. It offers an assessment of the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 65509 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Azimi, Abdul Salam
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Justice sector reform in Mongolia : looking back, looking forward (anglais)
The justice sector in Mongolia has changed significantly in the 20 years since the country became a democracy. From the very beginning, the World Bank and other international partners have provided significant...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 65990 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Allen,Frances M.,Dr. Gramckow, Heike
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Alternative dispute resolution and the rule of law in international development cooperation (anglais)
The role of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in efforts to strengthen the rule of law is attracting increased interest in international development cooperation. From a development perspective, the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 62096 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Michel, James
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Culture-based justice architecture : building community wellbeing through deeper cultural engagement (anglais)
Law and the culture of law find their expression in the many facets of the law's institutions. One of the most visible of these is the architecture of the places in which the legal process is enacted...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56013 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kirke, Philip James
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Surveying justice : a practical guide to household surveys (anglais)
Though household surveys have long been an established part of development practice and regularly used to gather data on poverty incidence and the range of associated indicators, they have not yet become...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55993 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kastelic,Kristen Himelein,Menzies,Nicholas,Woolcock,Michael
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The hybrid courts of Melanesia : a comparative analysis of village courts of Papua New Guinea, Island courts of Vanuatu, and local courts of Solomon Islands (anglais)
This paper examines three systems of courts of justice, each in a different country in the region of South Pacific islands known as Melanesia, where state legal systems have been adopted from former European...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 62097 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Evans, Daniel,Goddard,Michael,Paterson,Donald Edgar
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Taking the rules of the game seriously : mainstreaming justice in development - the World Bank's justice for the poor program (anglais)
This paper explains the ideas and approaches that underpin the World Bank's Justice for the Poor (J4P) program. J4P is an approach to legal empowerment that focuses on mainstreaming sociolegal concerns...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51845 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Menzies,Nicholas,Sage,Caroline Mary,Woolcock,Michael