New Technologies in International Law / Tymofeyeva, Crhák et al.

2.1 Incoming Cases before Civil and Commercial Courts Other recent research by the World Justice Project underscores the magnitude of the global problem. According to WJP’s recent report 153 2019 measuring the Justice Gap, 1.4 billion people worldwide have unmet civil and commercial justice needs. Of the estimated 36% of people in the world who have experienced a non-trivial legal problem in the last two years, more than half (51%) are not able to meet their civil justice needs. Vulnerable groups, (including low-income populations, recipients of government benefits, and the unemployed), are affected disproportionately, they are more likely to have legal problems and to experience hardship as a result of their legal problems.

Figure 5: Incoming cases in the first instance civil and commercial Courts (2016–2018), Source: ( Stata CEPEJ ). Figure (5) refers to the number of incoming first instance civil and commercial litigious cases per 100 inhabitants in 2016-2018. The median of incoming cases in European jurisdictions is 2.5 per 100 inhabitants (2016) and 2.3 in (2018), whereas the average value decreased slightly from 2.6 (2016) to 2.5 (2018) at received cases per 100 inhabitants. The differences between States and entities are considerable. The lowest value has been recorded in Finland (0.1) and the highest in Belgium (6.7) per 100 inhabitants. While, there is an observable reduction from 4.4 to 4.2 of incoming cases in Azerbaijan. Overall, there are about seven States and entities reached moderately low values, not exceeding one incoming case per 100 inhabitants. These are Albania, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

153 World Justice Project , p. 5.

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