Seven Against Six

Overbooking a civil tribunal's daily hearing list when settlements arrive together

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sets a regional civil tribunal's daily hearing list as an overbooking problem, fitting 2,104 listed matters across 286 sitting member-days with a beta-binomial model in which settlements cluster within a morning. The registry's practice of listing seven tenancy matters against a capacity of six matches the clustered optimum, two fewer than an independent model would set, while its other three lists each carry one matter more than either model recommends.

@misc{slop_2tleml,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Bram Ntuli and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {Seven Against Six: Overbooking a civil tribunal's daily hearing list when settlements arrive together},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2tleml},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-overlisting-the-daily-2tleml/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}