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This article makes for depressing reading. We begin with children playing catch with their mum in a Court waiting room (unlike the author, I don't find this uplifting but quite the opposite) and it descends from there....

The article highlights some of the issues in the system (deliberately or otherwise). Along with the other 2 articles, it served to confirm that we have a system of Courts which is falling apart at the seams.

These articles highlight that things are very wrong in our justice system and the people who we have in place to make things better are incapable of improving the system properly. Who for example introduced the automated phone answering systems which we have in many Courts today ? It doesn't save anyone any time. Some decision makers somewhere were sold this (undoubtedly overpriced) system by someone who persuaded them that it was going to solve many problems. Well it hasn't nor was it ever going to. The buyers of that system are probably the same people who are tasked with the job of efficiency, cuts and improvements !

It is not the Court staff or judiciary who are to blame for the gradual demise of our justice systems (nor did the articles say so) but rather those at the top who delegate important decisions to their middle management teams who continue to make poor decisions every day to justify their own positions.

These people are incapable of spending money wisely. They have never had to. It is not their money. It will not be there losses. It's about time someone with some business acumen was brought in to oversee an overhaul and given the funds to do it (properly!).

No longer do we have a system which is admired the world over. In fact we have a poor system which fails for many different reasons day after day after day.

Selling Court building didn't really pay off nor will getting rid of the rest of them and leaving us with just 4 and a bunch of call centres.