Costa Rica News – I do not know who they were asking these questions to in order to get the highest ranking but either the other countries are just really bad or they did not ask the people I know that had experiences with the Costa Rica legal system.
A lawyer I poke with said unless someone steals more than $10,000 form you it is not even worth taking it to court….but I guess some feel different.
The latest World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index was published last week and includes 22 countries in the wider Caribbean in its expanded coverage of 113 countries and jurisdictions (from 102 in 2015), relying on more than 100,000 household and expert surveys to measure how the rule of law is experienced in practical, everyday situations by the general public worldwide.
Performance is measured using 44 indicators across eight primary rule of law factors, each of which is scored and ranked globally and against regional and income peers: constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice, and criminal justice.
The WJP Rule of Law Index is the most comprehensive index of its kind and the only one to rely solely on primary data. The Index’s scores are built from the assessments of local residents (1,000 respondents per country) and local legal experts, ensuring that the findings reflect the conditions experienced by the population, including marginalized sectors of society.
The top rated country in the wider Caribbean for 2016 is Costa Rica, followed by Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda. At the bottom is Venezuela, which is also last on the entire global list, below Afghanistan and Cambodia.
By Caribbean News Now, Edited by Dan Stevens
