But the backlog of cases in the legal system is estimated at more than 30m.
And it demands that more judges are appointed to deal with the court's massive backlog of cases.
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He is trying to deal with the huge backlog of cases at the Supreme Court by encouraging arbitration.
This can cause a long backlog of cases and other complications in what are sometimes rudimentary legal systems.
Labour agreed that the court needed to substantially reduce its backlog of cases.
Former Supreme Court chief justice KG Balakrishnan has said the fast track courts were quite successful in reducing the backlog of cases.
The regulator, which registers nurses and midwives, has been under fire because of problems with staff turnover and a large backlog of cases.
The difficult decision was to acknowledge that the new procedures will have a chance only if the backlog of cases is dealt with.
He said the UKBA had supplied inaccurate information to MPs about a backlog of cases and said Parliament had received incorrect assurances about progress.
The ruling challenges the Dublin II Regulation, used by many EU countries to send asylum seekers back to Greece, despite the country's backlog of cases.
By 1999, the backlog of cases reached 125, 000, which meant that the immigration service was utterly unable to cope with unprecedented numbers of asylum claimants in the following three years.
At the time of his death, the case was still open and had not yet gone to trial because of a backlog of cases at the Toulouse public prosecutor's office, Mouton said.
It also suggested the government appoint more judges to lessen the backlog of cases and ensure swift justice, and it called for updating the law to include crimes such as voyeurism and stalking.
To help ensure that mine companies no longer use a strategy of endless litigation to evade their responsibilities, we need to tackle the backlog of cases at the Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.
To clear the backlog of cases, the Social Security Administration in 2008 pushed judges to move between 500 and 700 cases a year, something less than half of judges were managing at the time, according to Mr. Astrue, the commissioner.
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The impact of the foreclosure investigation is not evenly spread throughout the US. As one might expect the states where the most foreclosures have occurred i.e. 40% of the national total have the biggest backlog of cases waiting to be settled.
ITNET, whose share price has been hit by the divorce, argues that its council-tax performance has not been as bad as the national figures imply, and that the backlog of cases it has bequeathed is smaller than the council's estimate of 40, 000.
An enormous backlog of cases - running to 120, 000 by the end of 2009, which would have taken 46 years to clear if the court had continued to work at the same pace - made it imperative that the court's functions be streamlined, especially for minor cases.
The Department of Education said the council's targets were not strict enough, immediate action was needed to clear a backlog of unallocated cases, and the views of children involved need to be taken into account.
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She said the backlog of unallocated cases had been cleared and apologies made for delays.
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The Home Affairs Committee also said that for years the UK Border Agency had repeatedly supplied it with incorrect information about the size of the backlog of asylum cases.
The backlog included thousands of cases which were duplicates or the paperwork was irrelevant because the case had been resolved in some other way.
But he said his team had found a backlog of 14, 000 cases where the UKBA failed to deal with requests to reconsider decisions after an initial rejection.
It has a judicial backlog of an astonishing 26m cases.
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In particular, it revealed the regulator had a high turnover of staff - about a third were leaving each year - and was facing a backlog of 4, 500 cases dating back as far as seven years.
Croatia has only 4.4m people but a backlog of 1.2m civil cases, including issues over title deeds.
But it now has a backlog of some 120, 000 cases - if it continues to work at its present pace, it would take 46 years to clear them, our correspondent says.
At the time of the inspection last year, the marriage-related backlog was growing at a rate of 700 cases a month.
There was also a backlog of a quarter of a million cases waiting to be processed, and around 36, 000 cases were "simply stuck in the system", the committee's report said.
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