On fairness. Judges are not like other public servants though. A judge’s work day is entirely different from that of any public servant.
Nobody truly thinks a judge’s work ends when he rises. A judge spends the hours between 8 and 2 (4 on days where he has multiple trials) sitting in court, but decisions are not written while he’s sitting.
The judge can only do about a third of his work during the work day. He must necessarily spend additional hours beyond the ordinary work day writing those decisions, whether that’s burning the midnight candle or sacrificing his weekends.
And this is by design. It’s not a choice or a time management issue, the judge literally cannot write decisions during the ordinary work day. He must necessarily produce them after the workday has ended. So the judge’s workday extends far beyond the workday of the ordinary public servant.
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On delaying cases for two months. This is wildly overstated by outsiders to the profession.
You rarely get more than 2 court dates in the same matter within a 30 day window. There are more delays occasioned by inefficiencies in the operation of the court than could ever be occasioned by the legal vacation.
Long adjournments, the random “The Court is not sitting today” and “There’s no date until next month Counsel” cost you more time than the legal vacation ever could.
If the goal is really speed and efficiency in the interest of litigants, making the courts more efficient gets you further than cutting down the legal vacation.
Otherwise, we’re just making decisions based on people grumbling that “Why should these ones get 2 months when everyone else gets 1”, which I personally can’t get behind. Because all you gain in speed if the legal vacation were cut down to one month is two additional court dates at most.
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If I got a dollar for how many times I've watched a food review from Ghana and patiently waited for flavour descriptions and got left with "It's giving" "It's spicy" "It's so good" ... "It's too good" ... "It's the best" , I'd be a thousaniare 😆
WHAT MAKES IT TOO GOOD? WHAT DID YOU EXPERIENCE? WHAT FLAVOUR DID YOU TASTE? WHAT TEXTURES ARE PRESENT? HOW DO THE PREVIOUS MENTIONED ELEMENTS COME TOGETHER TO MAKE IT THE BEST?
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