Mr. Conor Dignam:

-----but after the hearing, one does not experience the same delays because there is not the same necessity for written judgments or reserved judgments.

The resources available to High Court judges, generally speaking, are: a judicial researcher, access to a judicial library, and some, but only some, secretarial support. That is the extent of the backup that is available to our judges. I suppose the point has to be emphasised that it is, of course, the responsibility of the judge to provide the judgment. While that support is available to him or her, it is only support. The process and work of delivering a judgment on a case which may have run for one or two days, or two, three or four weeks, is the responsibility of the particular judge who has heard that case.