How is differentiated case management related to case management?
Caseflow management, as originally conceived by experts, such as Ernest C. Friesen, Harvey Solomon, and others, was intended to reduce the overall time taken to resolve cases. It sought to accomplish this goal by eliminating periods between steps in the process. Logically, it should reduce attorney time because events will occur while facts are still fresh. However, evidence on whether attorney time is reduced, and whether this reduction translated into lower costs to litigants, remains an open question. The original purpose of differentiated case management was to simplify often cumbersome court procedures and to tailor procedures to the needs of particular cases. The assumption was that by streamlining court procedures under the principles of case management, both overall timeliness and litigation cost could be reduced. Thus, differentiated case management is an extension of caseflow management. Differentiated case management itself has been refined with the notion that cases could b
