Development of Continuous Trial System in the Court of Justice

Abstract

            This research was written with aims to 1) conduct a comparative study of the continuous trial and case management system of the Court of Justice with foreign courts; and 2) set guidelines for developing the continuous trial system of the Court of Justice to be more effective. Qualitative study implementing documentary research on textbooks, books, articles and other documents, and information from the website along with in-depth interview and questionnaires were conducted to analyze and compare the derived data with foreign courts to set the guideline for development of Continuous Trial System in the Court of Justice.

            It could be seen in the research results that the guideline for development of Continuous Trial System in the Court of Justice, could consist of the following aspects: 1) determining the Panel of Judges in the Court of First Instance; 2) time Standard for the court proceedings; 3) Recording hearings at the trial; 4) mediations to reduce the number of cases; 5) active Role in the trial; 6) implementation of diversion; and 7) implementation of information technology systems. The guideline with these aspects were recommended in order to make the Continuous trial more effective.