The World Practices and the Perspectives of Introduction of the System of Effectiveness Assessment of the Court Performance in Ukraine

Abstract

In foreign countries the interest to the problem of effectiveness assessment of a public institution performance arose as early as in the 1950s of the XX century, when Japanese companies approved the first principle of quality surveillance. Subsequently the USA supported this initiative, having established Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) (1987), which they began to award to the companies and the organizations of the public sector for high achievements in the area of quality and the court was not an exception in this respect. Later the idea of assessment of court quality aroused interest in the European countries, as well. A number of questions – from defining the concept of quality of legal proceedings itself to the development of tools and methods of assessment, the criteria of quality – were discussed (Total Quality Management).