Electronic Case Management and Mediation - Drastic Improvement for the Courts in Tonga
A low ranking in the ease of contract enforcement in Doing Business in 2006 - Creating Jobs prompted Tonga’s government to seek remedial action. In this SmartLesson, Anthony D. Ford, Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Tonga, describes the range of activist measures, in particular the introduction of electronic case management and mediation, that were instrumental in drastically improving the legal process. For example, in just one year Tonga’s Supreme Court had cut the average time to enforce contracts from 510 days to 350.
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