Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis

Evidence suggests that poor court performance negatively affects the economy. Complaints about the business climate are often associated with complicated procedural laws and backlogs that beleaguer the system and slow it down. According to the Euro...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	SMALL CLAIMS PROCEDURE COURT FEES CLAIM FILING EVIDENCE COLLECTION CASE PREPARATION HEARINGS GROUNDS FOR APPEAL APPELLATE PROCEDURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/958931596186801507/Small-Claims-Where-does-Serbia-Stand-A-Comparative-Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34333

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spelling	okr-10986-343332021-05-25T09:50:35Z Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis World Bank SMALL CLAIMS PROCEDURE COURT FEES CLAIM FILING EVIDENCE COLLECTION CASE PREPARATION HEARINGS GROUNDS FOR APPEAL APPELLATE PROCEDURE Evidence suggests that poor court performance negatively affects the economy. Complaints about the business climate are often associated with complicated procedural laws and backlogs that beleaguer the system and slow it down. According to the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) 2018 report, it takes on average 315 days to resolve a civil and commercial case in a first instance court in Serbia.1 This is well above the EU average of 233 days. Small value cases that get stuck in Serbia’s Basic Courts perpetuate backlogs, hamper access to justice and consume a disproportionate amount of judicial resources relative to the value of these cases. This report provides a comparative analysis of the procedure for resolving small claims in Serbia and recommendations to improve it, based on lessons learned from comparator jurisdictions: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Slovenia. The report was developed under the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Justice Sector Support in Serbia (MDTF-JSS) and is informed by a broader World Bank initiative to support justice policy dialogue and reform in the Western Balkans. The analysis is primarily intended for the legal community in Serbia, including policy makers, judges, lawyers and those in academia. 2020-08-11T20:07:21Z 2020-08-11T20:07:21Z 2020-05 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/958931596186801507/Small-Claims-Where-does-Serbia-Stand-A-Comparative-Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34333 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Legal and Judicial Sector Assessment Europe and Central Asia Serbia
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description	Evidence suggests that poor court performance negatively affects the economy. Complaints about the business climate are often associated with complicated procedural laws and backlogs that beleaguer the system and slow it down. According to the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) 2018 report, it takes on average 315 days to resolve a civil and commercial case in a first instance court in Serbia.1 This is well above the EU average of 233 days. Small value cases that get stuck in Serbia’s Basic Courts perpetuate backlogs, hamper access to justice and consume a disproportionate amount of judicial resources relative to the value of these cases. This report provides a comparative analysis of the procedure for resolving small claims in Serbia and recommendations to improve it, based on lessons learned from comparator jurisdictions: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Slovenia. The report was developed under the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Justice Sector Support in Serbia (MDTF-JSS) and is informed by a broader World Bank initiative to support justice policy dialogue and reform in the Western Balkans. The analysis is primarily intended for the legal community in Serbia, including policy makers, judges, lawyers and those in academia.
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title	Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis
title_short	Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis
title_full	Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis
title_fullStr	Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis
title_full_unstemmed	Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis
title_sort	small claims : where does serbia stand? a comparative analysis
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/958931596186801507/Small-Claims-Where-does-Serbia-Stand-A-Comparative-Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34333
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Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis

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