Abstract The length of judicial proceedings is an important subject on the agenda social researchers, policy-makers, politicians, legal practitioners, and court administrators in several countries. Whether disposition time a country reasonable or not matter debate. Brazilian courts are usually perceived to be slow. This study investigates whether delay real problem merely perception. duration c...

Abstract Even though they represent almost 50% of all reported cases before the European Court Human Rights (ECtHR), settlements human rights violations escape scholars’ attention. While victims are increasingly expected to resolve their disputes amicably, it is unclear whether applicants will be better off accepting settlement offers rather than proceeding litigation. The article charts practi...

Conventional academic discourse, within both law and political science tells the story of how the European Court of Justice, though its judgments and judicial practices has ‘constitutionalised’ the EC Treaty, reformatting an intergovernmental bargain into a federal legal order. Many accounts have presented the Court as the heroic champion of integration, pushing the integrationist agenda forwar...

In a landmark ruling applauded by medical groups, a court has judged Scotland’s proposal to set a minimum price on a unit of alcohol as legal and compatible with European law. However, the Scotch Whisky Association and the trade organisation Spirits Europe, which have challenged the legality of minimum pricing, said that they planned to appeal and were confident of success. The industry mounted...