Acceso usuarios
Luigi Paolo Comoglio
The «unreasonable» time and the unbearable delays in adjudicating civillitigations are tbe worst troubles, that, nowadays, modern societies have still to face. There can be no doubt that a too late justice is finally destined to turn to an «unjust» determination of the case (or. in other uiords, to a substantial injustice), with heavy economic costs and wide social disadoantages. This serious problem, both in cioil laui systems and in common law countnes, is well known ; but everywhere the best legislatiue attempts and efforts, in order to improue the judiciary and the proceedings' efficiency, are too often crowned untb failure. This essay tries to analyze - in a broad constitutional perspectiue, with special reference to spanisb, portuguese and latin american systems - the strict relationship tbat exists between the «reasonable» time in civil trials and the «fair process» guarantees' effectiveness.
