Performance of the District Courts

Fiscal Year 2016 - 2017

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Campaign 1: Provide Adequate Access to Justice


Objective

OBJECTIVE B: THE TRIAL COURT PROCESS

Intent of the Objective

Responses To Objective

  1. Your court facilitated expedited trials.
  2. If your court facilitated expedited trials, please check or describe all the means you used:
  3. Your court identified opportunities to reduce litigation costs.
  4. If your court identified opportunities to reduce litigation costs, please describe those opportunities.
  5. Your court used uniform procedures for in forma pauperis (IFP) processing.
  6. Unbundling: Your court authorized lawyers to perform tasks for parties without incurring an obligation to continue representation that requires judicial permission to withdraw, as per La. District Court Rule 9.12.
  7. Your court instituted electronic filing procedures.
  8. If your court instituted electronic filing procedures, who has access to them?
  9. If your court instituted electronic filing procedures, is there a cost to access them?
  10. Please share any other strategies that you used or the details of the strategies above that you used to provide adequate access to justice through the trial process.
  11. Please share any obstacles you encountered in providing adequate access to justice through the trial process and suggestions, if any, to overcome those obstacles.

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184779451Unbundling: Your court authorized lawyers to perform tasks for parties without incurring an obligation to continue representation that requires judicial permission to withdraw, as per La. District Court Rule 9.12.Unbundling: Your court authorized lawyers to perform tasks for parties without incurring an obligation to continue representation that requires judicial permission to withdraw, as per La. District Court Rule 9.12.
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Unbundling: Your court authorized lawyers to perform tasks for parties without incurring an obligation to continue representation that requires judicial permission to withdraw, as per La. District Court Rule 9.12.
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ResponseResponse_Court
Strategy was implemented during the reporting period5 courts (11th JDC, 26th JDC, 35th JDC, 37th JDC, Orleans Parish Civil District Court)
Strategy was implemented prior to the reporting period and is ongoing14 courts (1st JDC, 4th JDC, 6th JDC, 10th JDC, 15th JDC, 25th JDC, 29th JDC, 30th JDC, 32nd JDC, 34th JDC, 36th JDC, 40th JDC, Caddo Parish Juvenile Court, Orleans Parish Juvenile Court)
Strategy was not implemented during the reporting period and is not ongoing29 courts (2nd JDC, 3rd JDC, 5th JDC, 7th JDC, 8th JDC, 9th JDC, 12th JDC, 13th JDC, 14th JDC, 16th JDC, 17th JDC, 18th JDC, 19th JDC, 20th JDC, 21st JDC, 22nd JDC, 23rd JDC, 24th JDC, 27th JDC, 28th JDC, 31st JDC, 33rd JDC, 38th JDC, 39th JDC, 42nd JDC, East Baton Rouge Family Court, East Baton Rouge Juvenile Court, Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court)

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