Ms Angela Denning:

We increased the number of staff in the wards of court office in preparing for this legislation and the President of the High Court increased the number of judges available to deal with the list. We have a glut of applications coming in at the end but that is not unusual in courts. We will manage as best we can. We can redeploy resources, if required. That is part of what we do. We look at where the backlogs are and we try to deal with them before they become backlogs. There is a statutory deadline here that we have to meet.