Evaluation Indices of the Judicial System and ICT Developments in Civil Procedure

The reform that by Presidential Decree (13th February 2001, n.o123) introduced “telematics civil procedure” in Italian judicial system has the objective of a more efficient and rapid justice. The combination of justice and Information and Communications Technology is now a path to be not only in terms of functionality and cost management, but also to adjust the Italian quality standards respect to the other European states: it is shown telematics civil procedure in its architecture, in its draft implementation and benefits arising from its actual use. From the statistical point of view as an indirect measure of the judiciary evaluation, we analyze the indices of average length in the various proceedings, as the main tool for assessing the efficiency court, noting the repeated condemnations against the Italian state, by the European Court of Human Rights, for failure to comply with the principle of reasonable duration of the process, a further confirmation of the unfortunate situation that our country is facing on the topic of judicial authority.