Reform before recruitment - Do we have enough judges?

He pointed out that our courts can call on 163 judges to serve 4.8m people — only 34 judges per million people. This ratio puts Ireland firmly at rock-bottom of the European league table.
Anyone ensnared in litigation will be familiar with the bizarre timescales tolerated in our courts, but, even so, they are unlikely to support Mr Justice Humphreys as emphatically as he might imagine.