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198 <strong>Diagnos<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>Corruption</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Ethiopia</strong><br />

Table 5.1 (cont<strong>in</strong>ued)<br />

Enforcement of<br />

judgment<br />

Fil<strong>in</strong>g of claim and<br />

pretrial stages<br />

b. Crim<strong>in</strong>al Justice<br />

• Judges “sell” judgments or other preferential treatment to<br />

parties.<br />

• Public officials or political authorities pressure or bribe witnesses.<br />

• Police or bailiffs take bribes to not br<strong>in</strong>g witnesses (or defendants)<br />

to trial.<br />

• Lawyers or clients offer or agree to pay court staff to “lose” files.<br />

• Lawyers or clients offer (or agree) to pay to delay or accelerate<br />

issuance of written op<strong>in</strong>ions (this may be delayed for a long<br />

time).<br />

• Private defense attorneys accept bribes from <strong>in</strong>terested<br />

nongovernmental parties to mishandle cases.<br />

• Court staff members accept or request bribes to show judgments<br />

to parties (or to offer to sell an outcome already determ<strong>in</strong>ed by<br />

the judge).<br />

• Lawyers solicit money from clients to bribe any of the actors but<br />

keep the funds.<br />

• Lawyers or parties offer or agree to pay to affect decisions on<br />

licenses to appeal and appellate judgments.<br />

• Political authorities or higher judicial leaders direct whether and<br />

how enforcement will be effected.<br />

• Parties offer or agree to pay to arrange early release,<br />

non<strong>in</strong>carceration, or reduction or nonpayment of damages.<br />

c. Civil Justice<br />

Potential forms of corruption<br />

• Public officials (<strong>in</strong> judiciary or outside) direct staff to admit or not<br />

admit cases.<br />

• Public authorities coerce or bribe private attorneys to file or not<br />

file cases.<br />

• Court staff offer bribes or other considerations to accept and<br />

process claims.<br />

• Lawyers accept bribes from other parties to mishandle cases or<br />

accept fees from parties on both sides.<br />

• Lawyers solicit money from clients to bribe judges or staff but<br />

<strong>in</strong>stead pocket the money.<br />

• Lawyers encourage clients to take cases to court that they are<br />

bound to lose.<br />

• Process servers accept or solicit bribes for nonservice, faster<br />

service, false service, and so on.<br />

• Public officials (<strong>in</strong> judiciary or outside) direct staff to speed or<br />

delay <strong>in</strong>itial process<strong>in</strong>g of cases.<br />

• Lawyers or parties offer or agree to pay court staff for faster or<br />

slower schedul<strong>in</strong>g of events or for misplacement of case files.<br />

(cont<strong>in</strong>ued next page)

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