6 Differentiated Case Management (DCM) Model in Nepal

The concept: the cases' triage — different tracks for different cases (the complexity-and- urgency-based differentiation: the fast-track (the simple claims' short calendar), the standard track, the complex track (the multi-party-and-heavy-evidence cases' managed marathon)); the DCM's components: the early case-screening; the track-assignment; the firm dates (the lawyers'- and-judges' calendar discipline); the interim-relief-and-settlement checkpoints; the monitoring (the age-and-activity reports — the inventory's transparency). The Nepali adoption: the judiciary's strategic-plan era's flagship (the DCM pilot-and-expansion in the courts — the bench's case-flow reform); the practice (the case-flow-management committees; the cause-list discipline; the backlog-reduction campaigns); the evaluation (the gains: the pendency's containment; the challenges: the bar's adjournment culture, the resources, the momentum's maintenance). DCM's