9:00-9:30 Registration



   9:30-9:50 Welcome and Opening Remarks 

                          Oana Andrea Schimdt-Hăineală, President, Superior Council of Magistracy

                          Mark Dietrich, Vice-president, East-West Management Institute

            

  9:50-10:00 Introduction to Conference and Agenda

                  Anthony Fisser, Training expert, East-West Management Institute



​10:00-11:20 Session 1 A New Model for Allocating Judges and Clerks Between Courts
                          Dr. Jesper Wittrup, Project Director (moderator)

                          Ana Maria Andronic, Project Legal Advisor 



•            A Proposal for New Case Groupings to Support Court Management
•            Best Practices for Staff Allocation
•            A Pragmatic Approach for Romania
•            The Workload Measuring System in Germany

                          Judge Roland Ketterle, Vice-President, District Court Bonn

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Question and Answer: Panel



​11:20-11:40 Break

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11:40-12:50 Session 2 The Foundation: Key Performance Indicators and Time Standards

                           Dr. Jesper Wittrup (moderator)

                           Neal Kauder, Project Statistics Expert

                           Judge Eduard Ciobotaru, Vice-President, Bucharest Tribunal



•            Key Performance Indicators and Establishing Time Standards
•            Pilot Court: Using Performance Indicators for Management
•            Improving Key Judicial Values Through Performance Evaluation

                            Francesco Contini, Research Institute on Judicial Systems,

                            National Research Council of Italy  (IRSIG-CNR), Bologna



Question and Answer: Panel



12:50-14:00 Lunch break



14:00-15:10 Session 3 Court Improvement

                          Kenneth Stuart, Project Resident Advisor (moderator)

                          Ana Maria Andronic

                          Judge Lavinia Curelea, Section President, High Court of Cassation and Justice

                          Judge Robert Emanoil Condurat, Vice-President, Craiova Court of Appeals

                          Judge Narcis Violin Stoica, President, Iaşi Tribunal

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•            Pilot Court Success Stories

                    Overview

                    Pilot Court: Optimizing the Activities of Civil Section I​

                    Pilot Court: Collecting Good Practices to Reduce Delay

                    Pilot Court: Operational Improvement



•            A Guide to Caseflow Management

​Question and Answer: Panel



​15:10-15:30 Break



15:30-16:10 Session 4 Data Quality and the Communication of Data

                          Neal Kauder (moderator)

                          Judge Nicoleta Ţînţ, Vice-President, Court of Appeals Braşov
 

•            Simplifying Data Entry: Solutions and Reasons for Delay
•            The Power of Case-Level Data for Judicial Research

•            Visual Communication of Court Data
•             Pilot Court: Quality of Data and Visual Communication of Data

Question and Answer: Panel



​16:10-16:50​ Session 5 Key Factors for Long-Term Improvement

                          Dr. Jesper Wittrup (moderator)

                          Kenneth Stuart



• ​           Expanding Pilot Courts
•            Various Recommendations - Issues

Question and Answer: Full Panel



16:50 Closing Remarks

                           Dr. Jesper Wittrup 



​17:00 End of Conference