Strasbourg, 18/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting reviewing ways of reducing the length of civil procedures, sponsored by the Council of Europe in Madrid from 11 to 13 July and inspired by the principle "delaying justice is a denial of justice", the representatives of 28 States agreed that unreasonably long procedures undermine public confidence in the judicial system. Participants identified guidelines for making courts more effective in their work: - in the area of prevention,...