Timeliness is necessary to the achievement of justice.
How do we deliver consistently speedy and timely results in justice? Do we focus on making deadlines that encourage/necessitate timeliness? Or do we begin with the culture? Perhaps we need both. But what do we begin with? This seems like a chicken-and-egg question: Do good deadlines produce a timely culture, or does a timely culture produce timely deadlines? We at Timely Justice suggest that timely …
In Quit, Annie Duke explores when it is better to quit than go on. Her fundamental thesis is that it is often better to quit than to carry on. She points out many examples of people who quit, or are forced to quit, who then go on to be grateful they did so. The climbers who turned back from the Everest Summit but survived when …
The introduction of a pitch clock and other changes sped up Major League Baseball this past season and to general approval, larger viewing audiences, and even most diehard traditionalists seem to be happy. When I published my report “Criminal Justice for the 21st Century” in 2012, I was characterised by one reporter as taking a “Moneyball approach to justice”. Anne Milgram in The Atlantic also …
How do we overcome the obvious—and not obvious—obstacles to achieving timeliness in the justice system? One question of method is whether we should pursue incremental or dramatic change. There is evidence for both. Many faced with the failure of dramatic programs to find acceptance have opted to pursue smaller, incremental improvements. This debate carries on across many policy landscapes. Perhaps the most obvious concerns environmental …
