Winning a civil case is the middle of a process that most descriptions treat as the end.
A is an instruction, and somebody has to collect the money.
rates are poor in most systems and are rarely published, which is not a coincidence.
A defendant with no assets is unreachable, and tracing assets is the expensive part.
of property and vehicles are usually searchable; bank accounts are usually not.
Countries that created a central account register raised enforcement substantially within two years.
The same register is also an instrument of , which is the argument that delayed it everywhere.
Access rules decide whether the tool is , and they are written after the register exists.
against a person differs from enforcement against a company in a way that the law hides.
A company can dissolve and reappear with the same directors, the same premises and a new name.
Director exists to prevent that and is applied at a rate far below the rate of occurrence.
Prosecuting it requires resources that a small does not have and a regulator does not prioritise.
Small claims procedures were designed to make the system usable without a lawyer.
They succeed at the filing stage and leave the claimant alone at the enforcement stage, which is harder.
A claimant who obtains an order and cannot enforce it has spent money to learn that the system does not work.
That experience spreads faster than any statistic and shapes whether anybody else bothers to sue.
Publishing enforcement rates alongside case numbers would change the incentives of every court administrator.
It is the reform with the lowest cost and the one least often proposed by the people who hold the data.