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THE PREAPPEAL CONFERENCE AND EFFECTIVE JUSTICE
Author(s) -
GOLDMAN JERRY
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1979.tb00182.x
Subject(s) - economic justice , state (computer science) , political science , work (physics) , law , federal court , law and economics , economics , business , public administration , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , supreme court , algorithm
Appellate courts—both state and federal—have experienced dramatic increases in court business since 1960. A popular policy to meet this demand has been to encourage litigants to end their appeals short of decision by the judges. Few of these programs have been evaluated; and of those few the evidence is either insufficient to support claims of effectiveness, or demonstrate that some preappeal procedures do not work.