REGARDING THE PROBLEMS OF CHARACTERIZING THE FORMS FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COURTS ACTIVITIES

Abstract

It has been proved that evaluation is an extremely important tool for controlling the activities of courts. Its special significance is that it allows to obtain content and fundamental data on the level of quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the court activities without direct interference into its activities on administration of justice. That is, by providing relevant information on the activities of the court, the assessment contributes to the observance of its independence as a judicial agency. It has been determined that due to the evaluation it is possible not only to establish the degree of conformity of the qualitative and quantitative indicators of the court’s activities with the established legal requirements and public expectations and requests, but also to detect the problematic aspects of the courts activities; to provide a more rational and effective approach to allocating resources, including personnel, to specify, prioritize and improve the work of the court and judges more precisely and clearly. At the same time it has been noted that the assessment concerns only the organizational and managerial aspects of the work of the court and does not provide the verification of the efficiency and effectiveness directly of the just activities of judges of the court (courts).

It has been established that the evaluation of the court activity is carried out mainly in the forms of questioning (external and internal) and the study of reporting and other documents containing statistics on the work of courts. Their analysis has been accomplished; and propositions for their improvement have been provided.

It has been stressed that the existing system of assessing the work of the court is very informative and contains almost all indicators, forms and methods necessary for obtaining reliable data about the activity of judicial agencies, including those that administer justice. At the same time, the author has noted that such a system, even its basic components, are not mandatory, but only recommended for the application, that is why the mechanism of the studied evaluation is often not properly implemented in practice.