Court of Appeal backlog - ‘To delay justice is injustice’

“Justice delayed is justice denied” is a legal maxim which states that legal redress that is not delivered on time is the same as no redress. 

It was most notably used in recent times by Martin Luther King to emphasise that justice for African-Americans had been delayed for far too long.

No doubt, members of the Irish Supreme Court are well aware of the maxim and Latin scholars among them might also be familiar with the similar saying “Iustitiam morari iniustitia est” — “to delay justice is injustice”.