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This chapter explores the concept of time in the delivery of justice, reflecting on its multiple dimensions, roles and functions. Building on Orlikowski and Yates notion of temporal structuring, it investigates how people, material artefacts and legal rules defining judicial procedures and their legal performativity contribute to orienting ongoing activities and shaping temporal structures and their evolution trajectories. It addresses a gap in the existing literature exploring the effects on time structures and structuring of the intertwining of legal and technological performative requirements. The chapter looks at two key events, the filing of a case and the hearing, and two objects of time, the case register and the case file. It also describes the emergence of new temporal structures as procedures are digitised, and remote hearings replace courtroom hearings. It reflects on the emergence of new and simultaneously experienced and enacted perspectives on time, as the temporalities of the single procedure, its legal terms, deadlines and legal performativity requirements are joined by aggregated viewpoints, with new concepts such as disposition time, reasonable timeframe, and case weighting.
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