Learning from justice metrics models in other jurisdictions

tags: Justice Metrics

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National Legal Assistance Data Standards Manual 12 (DSM). It was used in Australia to facilitate the collection of consistent and comparable data across the legal assistance sector.

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Benefits seem to be articulated largely in terms of benefits to individual data providers. Maybe just a sales pitch thing but a good idea either way

inconsistency of data collection within each faction of the legal assistance sector

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interpretation of the manual varies by provider

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provide best practice guidance on how legal practice guidance on how all assistance service providers capture data

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for the benefit of the entire legal assistance sector

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Australian Government only requires a small subset of the data for reporting purposes

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respond to current and emerging legal need

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describes a full range of service categories and sub-types within those categories. It provides questions and discrete answers so choices are easily made. Where necessary, it defines terms (e.g. of service types). It provides detailed counting rules

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could easily be applied in a manual for comparable services in B.C

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not intended to be an enforceable set of rules

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no official training has been developed or provided

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de-identified subset of the data recorded by LACs, CLCs and ATSILS periodically each year

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in line with existing funding arrangements

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Commonwealth funding agreements in the legal assistance sector require that case studies be conducted

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preliminary evaluation and classification framework for "roles beyond lawyers" (RBL) projects

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review of literature through the lens of the classification scheme that was developed for the civil justice system

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appropriateness

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effectiveness

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sustainability

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Measures for Justice (MFJ) was founded in 2011 to develop a data-driven set of performance measures to assess and compare the criminal justice process

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"contextual measures" describe the broader population in the area

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Civil Justice Improvements Committee (CJIC). The CJIC was charged with developing guidelines and best practices for civil litigation

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Civil Justice Initiative produced a series of publications on "Performance Measures for Civil Justice."

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clearance rates, time standards, time to disposition, discovery disputes, default judgment rates, continuances/extensions, trial rates, and court costs

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Survey methodologies

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Access to Justice Index

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assessed the existence of “best practices” in their state for increasing access to justice

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Goal 16 of the SDGs calls on all countries to ensure access to justice.

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categories of civil justice indicators

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Handbook for Measuring the Costs and Quality of Access to Justice

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costs

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quality

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outcome

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In the U.K., the Ministry of Justice publishes a Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly

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"Assisted Digital Support" (ADS). ADS refers to support necessary to enable citizens to access digital services

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measurement of PLEI initiatives

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reservations were expressed about creating national PLEI measures for fear of "homogenizing" PLEI, marginalizing key PLE objectives, and inhibiting innovation

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PLE does seem like a good example of an activity that defies easy measurement. Even within the controlled environment of a university, assessment of educational efforts is a basically unsolved problem.

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