Effective duration of the civil proceedings in Italy – Statistical analysis

Abstract

Statistical analysis has been conducted on the effective duration of civil proceedings: no significant relation between duration and dimension of offices emerges, while it exists with respect to geographical divisions especially for Courts of first instance. A cluster analysis has been applied to identify homogeneous groups of object codes and thus give a qualitative vision of the minor or major complexity of proceedings. We finally compared effective duration and disposition time both for Courts of first and second instance, results show that the effective mean duration is greater than the disposition time in correspondence of briefs durations and viceversa the disposition time is higher than effective duration for proceedings resolved in more than 3 years.