Ways of Implementation of the Right to Civil Proceedings within a Reasonable Time, 2016

Authors: A. Brazdeikis, V. Nekrošius, R. Simaitis, V. Vėbraitė

This study was prepared by the scholars of the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University during the research, which was funded by the Research Council of Lithuania and was devoted to examine thoroughly the conditions to implement the right to civil proceedings within a reasonable time. Considering the limited time and both human and financial resources available for the research project, the study was limited only to the analysis of contentious proceedings, excluding non-contentious proceedings, enforcement proceedings or the provisions of international and EU civil procedure out of the research scope. The study consists of two core sections: first of them analyses the performance efficiency of the judicial institutional system; the second section is devoted to procedural preconditions to hear civil cases within a reasonable time. The study also includes a supplementary component of foreign authors dealing with the analysis of the situation in their states.