REFORMING MEDITERRANEAN CIVIL PROCEDURE: IS THERE A NEED FOR SHOCK THERAPY?

Abstract

The author divides the European countries into two groups, according to the efficiency of their respective legal-procedural system. First, that of the States whose relative system is inefficient, which he calls "Mediterranean" because most of those countries are situated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Second, that of the countries whose systems are efficient. He then seeks to identify the causes for inefficiency and proposes solutions to this problem.

Keywords

• efficiency of the legal-procedural system
• immediate rejection of actions and appeals manifestly unfounded
• calendar
• communication between procedural subjects
• contempt of court
• responsibility of the parties for the finding of facts
• reduction in the number of hearings
• orality
• immediate effectiveness of the sentence
• reduction of the appealable sentences
• hearings in appellate courts
• principle of the natural judge