Throughout Europe, judicial systems are under an increasing societal and political strain to increase the speed of proceedings and to improve their organizational funding This work aims to stimulate developments in public administration in the field of justice.

They reveal many existing tensions between traditional legal professional values, in particular judicial independence, and pressures to increase productivity and effectiveness of the work of the courts and public prosecutors' offices. Accountability and legitimacy of the courts are at stake here as well. Attention is also being paid to the consequences of the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies in judicial organisations.