#77 How to examine the efficiency and fairness of the judicial system?

When we think of the work of Polish courts in terms of effi­cien­cy, the time taken to pro­cess cases comes to mind. Accor­ding to data for 2020, the ave­ra­ge case pro­ces­sing time in a district court was 7 mon­ths. Is this what effi­cien­cy is all abo­ut? In the next epi­so­de, we talk abo­ut how an eco­no­mist can tell if the judi­cial sys­tem is more or less efficient.

Maciej Świ­ta­ła, a docto­ral stu­dent at the Facul­ty of Eco­no­mic Scien­ces of the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw, talks abo­ut the method of measu­ring the effec­ti­ve­ness of the court sys­tem using machi­ne lear­ning and text-mining, answe­ring Dr. Justy­na Pokoj­ska’s questions abo­ut:
- the meaning of „effi­cien­cy” and the deter­mi­nants adop­ted in the stu­dy,
- ways in which eco­no­mics can ascer­ta­in the „fair­ness” of jud­ge­ments,
- auto­ma­ting the exa­mi­na­tion of court jud­ge­ments,
- the prin­ci­ples of the algo­ri­thm for testing effi­cien­cy,
- the issu­es raised by the stu­dy,
- the prin­ci­ples of ope­ra­tion of the model and the errors that can be made by a model con­struc­ted in this way,
- results of the stu­dy and regu­la­ri­ties that emer­ge from the stu­dy,
- sur­pri­sing conclusions.