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“You are sentenced to timely justice" : Reducing case backlog at Family & Youth Court of Law Noord-Holland
Greef, Leon de (2025) “You are sentenced to timely justice" : Reducing case backlog at Family & Youth Court of Law Noord-Holland.
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| Abstract: | This research attempts to provide recommendations to reduce case backlog at the Family and Youth section of the Court of Law Noord-Holland. The core problem of the existence of case backlog is determined to be the presence of idle time in the hearing schedule – which is the leitmotif of this thesis. This is caused by the inflexibility of the hearing schedule that results in the inevitable scheduling of idle time when a buffer is needed. Case backlog and corresponding waiting times should be reduced to a minimum as it has negative consequences for the work pressure of judges and clerks, and for the lives of justice seekers. Based on the analysis of the current scheduling process and literature available concerning linear programming in the judicial system as well as in the broader service sector, we propose a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP). The MILP is considered because the solution should provide integer outcomes and because earlier done research successfully applies this technique in hearing scheduling in the judicial system. The created MILP minimises the idle time between hearings by adjusting the hearing length – the number of cases that are batched in a hearing. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Clients: | Rechtbank Noord-Holland, Haarlem, Nederland |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 58 process technology |
| Programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management BSc (56994) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107641 |
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