International Comparison for Judicial Statistics of Civil Lawsuit

我们发现，司法统计在立法和司法改革中发挥着重要作用。例如，德国2001/2002年的民事诉讼程序修订，特别是民事上诉程序的修订，是以民事上诉的司法统计为前提的，即民事上诉的提交和处置、处理时间等。另一方面，我们也发现司法统计的国际比较非常困难，因为每一次民事诉讼的司法统计都是使用各自独立的方法得出的结果，我们必须在不同的标准下将日本的司法统计与其他国家的统计进行比较。我们也必须考虑各种因素。例如，一个复杂的案件的立案可能会导致大量的出庭和诉讼，而一个简单的案件可能会在几分钟的一次出庭中得到解决。然而，这两种类型的案件都被算作立案，从统计上看，它们对法院的影响是平等的。在此前提下，我们尝试对德国、法国和美国的司法统计进行了比较。在对德国、法国、美国、英国、加拿大和日本的司法统计数据进行比较分析的基础上，我们发现日本的法院立案数量非常低。但我们无法调查法庭备案数量如此之少的原因。这是我们未来的挑战。在此背景下，司法统计的国际比较不仅要考察各种司法统计之间的差异，而且要考察法官制度、律师制度等各种司法制度之间的差异，还要考察各种文化氛围、经济、政治等方面的差异。

We found that Judicial Statistics played an important role in lawmaking and Judicial Reform. For instance, German civil procedure revision in 2001/2002, Civil Appeal revision particularly, was premised on Judicial Statistics of Civil appeals, namely, Filings and Dispositions of Civil Appeals, Processing Time, etc.On the other hand, we also found that International Comparison for Judicial Statistics was very difficult, because each Judicial Statistics of Civil Suit was the outcome of using their own separate methods, and we must compare Japanese judicial statistics with other country's statistics under various standards. We must be considered various factors too. For example, the Filing of a complex case may result in numerous court appearances and actions, while a simple case may be resolved in a single appearance of a few minutes. Yet both types of cases are counted as filings and appear equal statistically in terms of their impacts on the court. Under this premise, we tried to make a comparison between judicial statistics of Germany, France, and USA. England, Canada and Japan.Based on the analysis of a comparison between judicial statistics of Germany, France, USA, England, Canada and Japan, we found that the number of court filings in Japan was remarkably low. But we can not investigate into the cause of such a low number of court filings. That is our future challenge. In this context, it is necessary for International Comparison for Judicial Statistics to investigate into the difference not only between each Judicial Statistics, but also between each judicial systems, for example judge system, bar system, etc. And moreover it is necessary to investigate into the difference between each cultural climate, economy, politic etc...