The Court Statistics Book

This book provides decisive guidance on the techniques in counting and classifying cases, which are applicable in any court system and also advances the use of sophisticated equilibrium modeling techniques in determining the optimal quantity of cases and timelines from filing to disposition. Crucially, this book also provides a detailed exposition on the application of twenty-nine statistical formula subdivided into twelve productivity metrics, eight time lag metrics, five civil case activity efficiency metrics, and four judicial resource management metrics. These metrics provide a solid basis for the effective management and mobilization of judicial resources. The book also uses regression analyses in analyzing the factors which explain court productivity in the Jamaican court system and found decisively that the single most important factor explaining court productivity in the civil and criminal jurisdictions of the parish courts was the demand for judicial services, suggesting that judges respond positively to increased demand by increasing output.

Dr. Denarto Dennis is the author of The Court Statistics Book, a book on the fundamentals of a data driven approach to court management which all judicial officers, court administrators, other court personnel and the various stakeholders of the court must know. Dr. Denarto Dennis has also written various scientific articles and papers in the field of court statistics and currently serves in a consultancy capacity as the Chief Statistician for the Jamaican court system. He has been the main architect in driving the development and formalization of advanced statistical tracking tools and measurements in the Jamaican court system. Dr. Dennis has taught mathematics and statistics courses in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona for over ten years where he won faculty awards for excellence in teaching on three separate occasions. He is a graduate of the Manning's School and The University of the West Indies, Mona in Jamaica and has certification in Data Science (Visualization) from Harvard University. Dr. Dennis is also a trained mathematics teacher.