Waiting time
Sir,—Recently Mr Justice Eichelbaum spoke about some reforms he would like to see in our legal system. You followed this with an editorial which referred Specific-
ally to the idea that “a range of start times should be available for the daily case load in a court so that all people having business before a court on a particular day would not have to be present from 10 a.m. Last week I had occasion to be in a district court where the 10 a.m. start operated. I sat until 11.20 a.m. before the case in which I was interested was called. The same demand on one’s time applies to lawyers, witnesses generally, especially medical witnesses, police and traffic officers and the defendants themselves. It seems obvious to the lay person that a timetable of some sort should be used. At least time wasted would be greatly reduced. The Justice Department should look seriously at such a change—Yours, etc.,
HELEN NEWTON, Amberley. April 25, 1984.
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