TABLE 7 FIRST INSTANCE COURTS CASE PROCESSING CAPACITY Number Number of of court hearings days held monitored Average number of hearings per day Average daily working time (hrs:min) Average duration of a hearing (minutes) Average daily time dedicated to hearings Ramallah Bethlehem Hebron Nablus Tukarm Jenin Qalqilya Jericho West Bank combined 62 114 66 77 67 46 36 38 1.820 2.217 1.942 933 799 571 485 728 29 20 29 12 12 12 13 20 3:04 3:13 2:44 1:56 2:23 2:05 1:52 2:10 6 10 6 10 12 10 8 7 174 200 174 120 144 120 104 140 506 9.495 19 2:33 8 152 Gaza Khan Younes Gaza Strip combined First Instance Courts combined 92 174 1.665 9.057 18 53 1:58 3:01 7 3 126 159 266 10.722 41 2:39 4 164 772 20.217 26 2:35 6 156 TABLE 8 Number of SERIOUS CRIMES court days COURTS CASE monitored PROCESSING CAPACITY Ramallah 21 Overall number of hearings held during monitored days 288 Average number of hearings per day Average duration of a hearing (minutes) Average daily time dedicated to hearings 14 12 168 Bethlehem 14 183 18 14 252 Hebron Nablus 15 19 399 407 29 23 5 7 145 161 Tukarm Jenin 5 4 78 105 16 26 8 7 128 182 Qalqilya Jericho 2 1 60 14 30 14 10 21 300 294 Serious Crimes Court Combined 83 1,534 21 9 189 On average, First Instance Courts and Serious Crimes Court branches held a comparable number of hearings per day (respectively, 26 and 21). Some West Bank First Instance Courts, such as Nablus, Tukaram, Jenin and Qalqilya, appeared to hold a much lower number of hearings per day than the average. First Instance Courts in the Gaza Strip held, on average, twice as many hearings per day as Courts in the West Bank (41 vs. 19). The First Instance Court 28