Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems

Preface.- Table of Contents.- Part I General Synthesis.- Chapter 1 Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in the Contemporary World Global Developments - Towards Harmonisation (and Back); Alan Uzelac.- Part II National Perspectives.- Chapter 2 Civil Justice in Austrian-German Tradition; Christian Koller.- Chapter 3 Civil Justice in Pursuit of Efficiency; C.H. van Rhee.- Chapter 4 Goals of Civil Justice When Nothing Works: The Case of Italy; Elisabetta Silvestri.- Chapter 5 Goals of Civil Justice in Norway: Readiness for a Pragmatic Reform; Inge Lorange Backer.- Chapter 6 'American Exceptionalism' in Goals for Civil Litigation; Richard Marcus.- Chapter 7 Civil Justice with Multiple Objectives The Unique Path of Hong Kong's Civil Justice Reform; Peter C.H. Chan and David Chan.- Chapter 8 Social Harmony at the Cost of Trust Crisis: Goals of Civil Justice in China'; Yulin Fu.- Chapter 9 Civil Litigation in Russia: 'Guided Justice' and Revival of Public Interest; Dmitry Heroldovich Nokhrin.- Chapter 10 Battle between Individual Rights and Public Interest in Hungarian Civil Procedure; Miklós Kengyel and Gergely Czoboly.- Chapter 11 (In)compatibility of Procedural Preclusions with the Goals of Civil Justice: An Ongoing Debate in Slovenia; Ales Galic.- Chapter 12 Judicial Activism as Goals Setting - Civil Justice in Brazil; Teresa Arruda Alvim Wambier.- List of Contributors.