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Volume of first instance commercial court cases by class of claim value (average over 2016, 2017 and 2018).
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This open access eBook documents an empirical inquiry into the number, value and duration of large commercial court cases in five countries from different parts of Europe: Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Norway.
It is an exploratory study as for each country data had to
be extracted from the case registration systems of the courts. T...
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Context 1
... data for Norway and the Netherlands is presented in Table 3, and includes summary statistics. Figure 1 gives the available data on volume of commercial cases for all five countries. Data are three-year averages, as the volume of high value cases is small, and the financial claims in this category of cases fluctuate widely. ...
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... the volume of cases that do not have an explicit financial claim and their duration are given. The difference in size of the Netherlands and Norway economies needs to be kept in mind when examining figure 1: GDP of the Netherlands is roughly 2.1 times that of Norway. 2 The classes of claims are kept the same for both countries. As GDP per capita is higher in Norway than in the Netherlands, it might be expected, following the World Bank approach discussed in the previous chapter, that there are more large claims in Norway than in the Netherlands. ...
Context 3
... differences concern small claims in particular. The role of the courts is much more similar when it comes to the resolution of large claims (see also Figure 1). For these disputes access to courts is not precluded by the design of the legal system, although alternative mechanisms such as arbitration exist, and their relative attractiveness may impact upon the number of cases that go to court. ...
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... the two countries, the data for the Netherlands give the broadest insight into civil litigation in a high-income economy, as disputes of all sizes are channelled through the courts, although it might be to some extent an anomaly with its relatively high number of very high value cases. Figure 1 sets out the available data on volume of cases by class of claim value. It should be noted that the logarithmic scale compresses the differences between countries with respect to small cases with financial claims. ...
