Possibility or Impossibility of Privatization of Judicial Affairs

The main purpose of this article is feasibility study of privatizing affairs of judiciary with the aim of increasing judicial efficiency. For this purpose, the separation between types of judicial affairs is necessary. These affairs can be divided into inherent judicial affairs (like Settlement of disputes), administrative affairs related to the judiciary and affairs of organizations affiliated with the judiciary. It seems inherent judicial affairs cannot be transferred to other institutions or private section, but privatizing administrative affairs and affairs of organizations affiliated with the judiciary is possible. Accordingly, we analyze triple separation of judicial affairs mentioned above with look at the constitution of Iran and other related provisions and also status of privatizing judicial affairs in some countries in order to answer to main question of this article.