What Is It All About? An Overview of the Dutch Research and a Plea for Change

This article describes what has recently been published in Dutch research on the behaviour and actions of judges during civil oral hearings in Dutch courtrooms in relation to experienced procedural justice and with regard to reaching settlements. It tries to distil what we know and to provide an insight into what we do not know as yet and it pays attention to a new way of handling cases during oral hearings: the search for the underlying conflict. What is this exactly? Do we know, or can we predict what this way of handling oral hearings will do in terms of perceived procedural justice and in... Mehr ...