This OECD Report is published by the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD under the guidance of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance and overall supervision of Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness and Head of Division.
The Report was primarily authored by Heike Gramckow (Senior expert), Juan José Martinez Layuno (Justice Policy expert), María Pascual Dapena (OECD Justice Policy Analyst) and Tatyana Teplova. International expert support, comments and contributions were provided by Timo Ligi (OECD Senior Policy Advisor), Adam Knelman Ostry, Anne M. Trice, Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann (Justice Policy Consultant), and Laurence Bedoret (Data Analysis Consultant). Editorial assistance was provided by María Pascual Dapena and Melissa Sander (OECD Communications Advisor). Melissa Sander also provided administrative support.
The OECD is deeply grateful to Ireland’s Department of Justice and Court Services (Oonagh Buckley, Stjohn T. O'Connor, Yvonne White, Gerry A. McDonagh, Roisin I. Friel, Orla X. Mullen) for engaging the organisation in this process, the Chair of the Judicial Planning Working Group, Brigid McManus, Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O'Donnell, as well as to members of the Judicial Liaison Group (Justices Denis McDonald, Alan Mitchell, Sinéad Ni Chulachain, and Robert Haughton, as well as Alan Mahon and Kevin Haugh), and to all the involved Irish institutions for their remarkable co-operation, information and insights provided, including:
The Irish Judiciary (all court levels)
The Judicial Council of Ireland
The Court Service of Ireland
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
The Legal Aid Board of Ireland
The Council of The Bar of Ireland
The Association of Judges of Ireland
The OECD extends its sincerest thanks to the peer experts in justice services of OECD countries who dedicated their time and expertise to provide inputs on behalf of their countries for this Report. In particular, the OECD would like to emphasise its gratitude to the following officials:
Luc Altmann, Deputy Head of Insight and User Research, His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, United Kingdom
Danielle Hirsch, Managing Director of Court Services, National Center for State Courts, United States
Catherine McKinnon, Access to Justice Secretariat, Justice Canada, Canada
Jos Puts, Judicial Council, the Netherlands