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N4. Research
| 722. | The experience of preparing this Report has highlighted the importance of continuously monitoring the system and of research into its functioning: Proposal 80 |
| * | The choice of reforms to adopt needs to be informed by reliable data as to the system's deficiencies encountered in practice. | |
| * | Baselines of performance, whether in terms of costs, delays, user-satisfaction or otherwise, need to be established if the success or failure of any subsequent reforms is to be judged. | |
| * | The deployment of resources responding intelligently to needs generated by any reforms requires the impact of those reforms to be assessed. | |
| * | The performance of judges and court staff in relation to reforms requires to be monitored to enable training to be tailored to their needs and to judge the success or otherwise of the changes. | |
| * | Assessing the benefits or disadvantages of particular reforms requires on-going research to be conducted so that informed amendments can be effected or, if necessary, a decision can be made to jettison a reform which, due to unforeseen causes, turns out to be counter-productive . |
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