The social context of justice and the performance of judicial courts have undergone enormous transformations during the last decades, amending social conscience as what regards to the importance of the role of judicial power in the construction of a democratic Rule of Law and the rising of the social and political visibility of courts. Recent considerations regarding justice administration specificities stress the intentions of raising the quality and transparency of judicial systems and privilege the factors, internal and external, that influence the performance of courts and the reinforcement of their legitimacy.This paper focuses on pointing out routes that may contribute towards the quality of justice and consequent increase of social trust, beneficiating from reflections developed by Pim Albers, Special Advisor of The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe, and from the analyses of the various intervenients.

The social context of justice and the performance of judicial courts have undergone enormous transformations during the last decades, amending social conscience as what regards to the importance of the role of judicial power in the construction of a democratic Rule of Law and the rising of the social and political visibility of courts. Recent considerations regarding justice administration specificities stress the intentions of raising the quality and transparency of judicial systems and privilege the factors, internal and external, that influence the performance of courts and the reinforcement of their legitimacy.This paper focuses on pointing out routes that may contribute towards the quality of justice and consequent increase of social trust, beneficiating from reflections developed by Pim Albers, Special Advisor of The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe, and from the analyses of the various intervenients.