duration_of_proc: Duration of a process

In VwGHat: Mining Austrian administrative court rulings

Description

It reads out the date of the rule of the last instance and the date of the VwGH decision, calculates the difference and subtracts 6 weeks.

Usage

duration_of_proc(data)

Arguments

data	Single-row dataframe with the the columns "Entscheidungsdatum" and "Veroeffentlichungsdatum"

Details

The start date of the process is determined by search for the most recent date in the 'Betreff' field, this gives good results for the sample dataset from Nagel and Mamut (2006) (note that the classification in the dataset is inconsistent for cases involving more than one incident, sometimes choosing the first incident as a reference date). 42 days are subtracted from the date difference, as appelants have six weeks to file their case to the VwGH.

Value

It returns the process duration as number of days.

Author(s)

Martin Kober <[e-mail]>, Georg M. Zajko <[e-mail]>

References

Austrian law information system http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/

Nagel, H. and Mamut, M. (2006): Rechtsprechung des VwGH in Abgabensachen 2000- 2004.

VwGHat documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:55 p.m.