Like all of us I wish I had the magic date we will receive notification from the SC, but I don’t. Previously my conviction was strong for us to have had an outcome by Feb/March. How wrong was I?
However, with the 16 sitting judges of the SC and the ~6000 cases they review/receive each year that is 375 cases per judge per year.
I assume they don’t work weekends so that’s ~250 working days per year which equals 1.5 cases reviewed each day for each judge.
What does that mean? Absolutely nothing! Do judges pick up a case and finish it before opening another? Do they collaborate with other judges on cases? Do they have KPIs for the number of cases they must conclude on? Should they? Does it really matter?
Fact is it’ll happen when it happens and in the meantime there is nothing we can do.
I don’t buy in to any conspiracy theory raised either here or over at “the other place.” Judges are busy and with no cost/consequence imposed on those requesting leave for appeal they will remain busy (and no doubt underpaid in their own eyes).
No matter what is happening in the back ground or how things operate in the walls of the SC we will get an outcome only when we get an outcome. (I’ve amazed myself with how profound that sounds
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Hang in there good folk, we are surely nearing the end of “this” roadblock, hopefully with the result we all expect.