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This book explores the regulations, goals and functioning of preparatory proceedings in four Nordic countries and eight former communist countries. The contributions discuss whether, and how the regulation and practice of preparatory proceedings enhance s

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Laura Ervo • Anna Nylund Editors

Current Trends in Preparatory Proceedings A Comparative Study of Nordic and Former Communist Countries

Editors Laura Ervo School of Law, Psychology and Social Work ¨ rebro University of O ¨ rebro, Sweden O

Anna Nylund Faculty of Law University of Tromsø Tromsø, Norway

ISBN 978-3-319-29323-3 ISBN 978-3-319-29325-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29325-7

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Preface

The project Current Trends in Preparatory Procedures—Comparative Studies in Nordic and Former Communist Countries were founded by the NOS-HS (Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for Humanities and the Social Sciences) in 2014–2016. The project was based on workshops where the book was prepared ¨ rebro organised by Laura by the project members. The kick-off seminar was in O Ervo. Anna Nylund arranged the mid-seminar in Tromsø. The final seminar will be organised in Budapest in late 2016 by Ade´l K€obl€os as soon as the book is published. This anthology is the fruit of the project. The anthology covers the preparatory stage in civil procedure and is mainly focused on the non-mandatory cases from a comparative perspective between the Nordic and the former communist countries. One of the greatest challenges for today’s civil procedural law all over the world is effectiveness and speediness. In order to achieve this objective, legislators tend to introduce new legal institutions and carry out overall reforms affecting even the structure and role of the judiciary and the course of civil litigation. One of the