In February 2023, the legal profession welcomed the release of a much-awaited report from the Judicial Planning Working Group (JPWG) on chronic shortages in the judiciary impacting on the legal system’s capacity to ensure timely access to justice for the public.  A report published in 2022 by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), which sits under the Council of Europe, put Ireland at the bottom of 47 countries with just 3.27 judges per 100,000 people — well below the median of 17.6.  The government quickly moved to accept the JPWG’s findings and proposed to phase in its…

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