Justice: Change in court
Friday, January 1st, 2010The Irish legal system needs an intermediate appeal court in order to ease the burden on the Supreme Court and to transform the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts, according to an influential working group. The Supreme Court is now overloaded and “unsustainable”. A working group, chaired by Supreme Court judge Mrs Justice Susan Denham, found that 229 cases were heard by the Irish Supreme Court in 2007 compared to 82 in Britain, 74 in America, 66 in Australia and 27 in New Zealand. The group also found that in 2008 the length of time to get a case to the Supreme Court was...[full story]
