01Core output
Case Management Orders (CMOs)
Practical orders to filter and clear cases, grounded in case-level evidence.
03 / 04Court Audit
Find and tackle the backlog.
Case-level analysis of court performance, caseflow and delay.
Where it looksCourts
- Police
- Prosecution
- Courts
- Prisons
- Legal aid
- 01Produces
- Case Management Orders (CMOs)
- 02Scope
- Courts
- 03Timeframe
- Scoped to each assignment
- 04Builds on
- Case-level court records
01Questions it answers
The questions it is built to answer.
A Court Audit works at case level. National practitioners and analysts help interpret the records and validate findings. The answers identify the courts, case types and case-age bands that need attention.
Where are cases accumulating?
How old is the backlog?
Which courts have the lowest clearance rates?
What causes adjournments?
Does judicial and administrative staffing correspond to caseload?
Which cases can be filtered out or cleared?
02The approach
Backlogs rarely have a single cause.
Where cases accumulate → how old they are → what causes adjournment → whether staffing matches caseload.
Court backlogs can reflect multiple causes across the justice chain. A Court Audit works at case level to establish where cases are accumulating, how old they are, what causes adjournments and whether judges and staff are deployed according to caseload.
The output is practical. Findings are translated into Case Management Orders – targeted measures to filter and clear cases and to tackle the administrative processes that cause delay.
In Bangladesh, Justice Audit analysis informed subsequent Court Audit work that identified the underlying causes of case backlog and produced case-management measures estimated to reduce the backlog by more than 30 per cent.
The same approach can establish a measured baseline for commercial courts and the enforcement of judgments, where delay translates directly into legal and investment risk.
How it works
- Step
Map the caseload
Pending cases by court, case type and age.
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Trace the delay
Adjournments, procedural bottlenecks and workload imbalances.
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Develop the orders
Develop Case Management Orders (CMOs) with the courts concerned, targeted at the causes of delay.
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Measure again
Track clearance rates and case age against the baseline.
03Scope
What it examines.
Measured case by case and institution by institution, then set against the rest of the justice chain.
- Pending caseload and backlog
- Age of pending cases
- Clearance rates
- Disposition time
- Adjournments
- Judicial and staff workload
- Vacancies
- Case management and digital systems
04Outputs
What you receive.
Produces
Case Management Orders (CMOs).
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Caseflow analysis
Clearance rates, disposition times, age of pending cases and adjournment rates, court by court.
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Workload and resource profile
Judges and staff measured against caseload, including vacancies and workload distribution.
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Performance baseline
Court-level indicators that can be measured again to show whether the backlog is falling.
05In practice
From diagnosis to targeted case management.
>30%
Estimated reduction in case backlog from the case-management measures produced by Court Audit work in Bangladesh.
Justice Audit analysis first located where the pressure sat. The Court Audit that followed identified its underlying causes – and translated them into Case Management Orders targeted at specific courts and cases.
Bangladesh · Court Audit · 2022- Cases in courts and agencies
- Police investigations
- People: arrests and prison
Circle area ∝ volume
View the data
| Stage | Volume | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Police investigations (FIR) | 29,056 | investigations |
| Chief Judicial / Metropolitan Magistrate Court | 195,743 | cases |
| District / Metropolitan Sessions Court | 126,756 | cases |
| Nari o Shishu | 17,756 | cases |
| Village Court | Not shown | |
| NLASO legal aid (civil + criminal) | 5,459 | cases |
| People arrested | 53,175 | people |
| Prison admissions | 57,389 | people |
| Average daily prison population | 7,367 | people |
06Experience
Where it has been used.
Real assignments, with national partners.
07Used in
Configured for three applications.
Every product can be commissioned on its own as part of core justice reform. The Court Audit is also configured for these three applications:
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