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Feb. 5th, 2018
A faster legal system?
Feb. 5th, 2018 06:21 pmI have noticed that some government services seem to badly need some consultant to turn up with an application of queueing theory: from my view in the waiting room watching visitors waiting to be being called to kiosks the service often seems to have so nearly enough capacity that I wonder if ( opening just a couple more desks would halve waiting times. )
Regardless of defendants being offered bail I expect that it is so unpleasant to be awaiting trial for a crime that society should put some effort into minimizing that delay. Of course, in preparation for trial various people must do various things, often in response to each other. Still, I wonder how far short the process falls of nearing its theoretical minimum duration for the same work done: if often what blocks participants from working on the case is only workload from other cases and, if so, if some small increase in capacity may yield large gains.
The question of preventable delays comes to mind also with my having had some involvement in some routine property conveyancing in England recently. The process took around five months in all from offers being accepted to exchange of contracts. In Ohio when we bought our house it took but a fortnight from offer to final paperwork: this included surveyor, water testing, soil testing, mortgage finalization, all manner of steps swiftly arranged and executed at low cost. ( Minor nitpicks seem a common obstacle. )
Regardless of defendants being offered bail I expect that it is so unpleasant to be awaiting trial for a crime that society should put some effort into minimizing that delay. Of course, in preparation for trial various people must do various things, often in response to each other. Still, I wonder how far short the process falls of nearing its theoretical minimum duration for the same work done: if often what blocks participants from working on the case is only workload from other cases and, if so, if some small increase in capacity may yield large gains.
The question of preventable delays comes to mind also with my having had some involvement in some routine property conveyancing in England recently. The process took around five months in all from offers being accepted to exchange of contracts. In Ohio when we bought our house it took but a fortnight from offer to final paperwork: this included surveyor, water testing, soil testing, mortgage finalization, all manner of steps swiftly arranged and executed at low cost. ( Minor nitpicks seem a common obstacle. )