Civil justice reform efforts inindustrial countries face common problems in increasingaccess to justice and reducing costs and delays. A recentsurvey examined problems with and reforms of civil justicein 3 common law nations and 10 civil law countries. Allreported that the economic interests of the legal professionexplain many of the costs and delays in litigation and thatovercoming these interests is difficult. Both civil andcommon law countries are resorting to greater judicialcontrol of litigation process to control lawyers and theirclients. There is the appearance of a new theory of civilprocedure: the resources devoted to resolving a disputeshould be proportionate to the interests involved and thatsystemwide resources should be allocated fairly across all disputes.
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