An Economic Analysis of Iran’s 2017 Judicial System Reforms: Ways with Long-term Effects to Improve Judicial System’s Litigation Delay

• Authors: Zahra Sohrabi Abad

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Analiza ekonomiczna reform systemu sądownictwa w Iranie z 2017 roku: sposoby wprowadzenia długoterminowych efektów poprawy opóźnień w procesach sądowych

Abstracts

PL

Opóźnienia w procesach sądowych są poważnym problemem dla systemów sądowniczych. W 2017 roku Iran wprowadził przepisy dotyczące cyfryzacji systemu sądownictwa w celu rozwiązania tego problemu. Artykuł pokazuje, czy nowa polityka była skutecznym ruchem i przedstawia rozwiązania o długoterminowych skutkach dla przezwyciężenia opóźnień w procesach sądowych. Aby zbadać efektywność niedawnych reform, autor analizuje wydajność rozwiązywania sporów w Iranie, korzystając z danych wtórnych z badań Doing Business oraz raportów Centrum Badań parlamentu irańskiego, w celu pomiaru środowiska biznesowego od 2016 roku, przed wprowadzeniem tych przepisów, a następnie do 2019 roku. Dochodzi się do wniosku, że metodologia Prawa i Ekonomii jest odpowiednią metodologią do analizowania efektywności polityki Iranu z 2017 roku, która również przedstawia sposoby osiągnięcia bardziej trwałych wyników w przezwyciężaniu opóźnień w procesach sądowych. Głównym wynikiem tego badania jest to, że według efektywności Kaldora-Hicksa niedawne reformy Iranu związane z cyfryzacją systemu sądownictwa były skutecznym ruchem, jednakże, ze względu na charakter tych reform, ta skuteczność nie jest trwała.

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Litigation delay is a serious concern for judicial systems. In 2017, Iran enacted regulations for digitizing the judicial system in order to address this problem. This article shows whether this new policy has been an efficient move and shows solutions with more long-term results for overcoming the litigation delay. To analyze the recent reforms efficiency, I review Iran’s dispute resolution performance using secondary data from Doing Business research and the Research Center of the Iranian parliament reports in measuring the doing business environment from 2016, before adopting those regulations, and then until 2019. Finally, it is concluded that Law and Economics methodology is suitable for analyzing the efficiency of 2017 Iran’s policy, which also provides ways to achieve more sustainable results to overcome the litigation delay. The main finding of this study is that according to the Kaldor-Hicks efficiency, Iran’s recent reforms related to digitizing the judicial system have been an efficient move; however, due to the nature of these reforms, this efficiency does not last permanently.

Keywords

EN

judicial system; World Bank; efficiency; Kaldor-Hicks; law and economics

PL

system sądownictwa; Bank Światowy; efektywność; Kaldor-Hicks; Prawo i Ekonomia

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski
• Journal: Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9-31

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Zahra Sohrabi Abad

• University of Ottawa

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Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/osap.5062

Biblioteka Nauki

9751379