Statistical study of judicial practices

Abstract

The new technologies imply important changes for judges in documentation consulting and other working habits. Presently, the legal codes and many judicial publications are being archived on electronic support and complex text and data bases are built up. How the judges are currently working and which are their difficulties? Would an interactive network help them to resolve the cases they face? These points and other many aspects of their daily activity are better known through the answers of the judges in a survey through questionnaire. Multidimensional exploratory techniques are used to design typologies according to the whole of the answers relative to the documents consulting. The authors use a survey to the young Spanish Judges to build up clusters of judges in accordance to their working habits. © 2005 Springer-Verlag.