Just how precious a commodity is court time? Very, when you consider that Ireland has fewer judges per head of population than any other member state in the European Union. To quote a recent High Court judgment of Justice Michael Twomey, the 2021 EU Justice Scoreboard illustrates in “stark fashion” that Ireland sits at the bottom of the table of 27 countries with fewer than 5 judges per 100,000 inhabitants compared to over 40 judges per 100,000 in Slovenia at the top of the table. The median number, according to the European Commission report, is 24 in Germany. Of the…