The Irish Judicial Backlog

Deputy Carol Nolan TD (Independent, Laois-Offaly), Dáil Éireann debate: Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed), Houses of the Oireachtas (May 30, 2023), <https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2023-05-30/11/> 

Deputy Nolan discussed proposed judicial reforms and appointments, and she further stated: “The Government says that it is considering the appointment of several additional judges to speed up the process. However, I will make the point—one made by Mr. Seth Barrett Tillman of Maynooth University many times[!]—that these appointments will not improve matters if the rules and traditions that guide the conduct of litigation carry on using the same or a similar procedural framework. In fact, it will just mean that whatever new courts we set up will continue to be weighed down by the exact same backlog in the exact same way as exists now.” (bold added).

Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘The Irish Judicial Backlog,’ New Reform Club (May 31, 2023, 5:38 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-irish-judicial-backlog.html>; 

Tillman's publications on Irish law and policy:

[1] Seth Barrett Tillman, Viewpoint, ‘All at sea: Why were former Chief Justice Frank Clarke and former High Court President Peter Kelly cajoled into resigning their judicial positions in the United Arab Emirates, when the ultimate beneficiaries would have been UAE litigants,’ 116(8) Gazette of the Law Society Ireland 22–23 (Oct. 7, 2022), <https://www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets/documents/gazette/gazette-pdfs/gazette-2022/october-2022-gazette.pdf>, <https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/in-depth/judicial-positions-and-uae>, <https://ssrn.com/abstract=4193901>;

[2] Seth Barrett Tillman, Viewpoint, ‘Access to Court Records and Oral Arguments,’ 115(1) Gazette of the Law Society Ireland 14–17 (Feb. 5, 2021), <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3740512>, <https://www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets/documents/gazette/gazette-pdfs/gazette-2021/jan-feb-2021-gazette.pdf>;

[3] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial, ‘Court of public opinion offers Séamus Woulfe no justice,’ The Sunday Times (Ireland edn), Nov. 15, 2020, 12:01 AM GMT, News Section, page 14, <https://tinyurl.com/y69zfkso>, <http://ssrn.com/abstract=3729356>;

[4] Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘COVID-19: Can the Oireachtas Legislate During the Pandemic?,’ 38(7) Irish Law Times 94 (2020) (Terri McDonnell, ed.), <COVID-19: Can the Oireachtas Legislate During the Pandemic?>, <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2020/04/can-oireachtas-legislate-during-pandemic.html>, <https://tinyurl.com/y7u54woq>;

[5] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial (Thunderer), ‘Court of Appeal failure should fuel reform of judiciary,’ The Times (Ireland edn), July 26, 2018, 12:01 AM, <https://tinyurl.com/yb2qb8dc>, <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3370810> (available on Nexis);

[6] Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘The Court of Appeal Backlog,’ 35(15) Irish Law Times 206–08 (2017), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2996405>;

[7] Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Has the [Irish] Court of Appeal Solved the Judicial Backlog? Can it?,’ 34(14) Irish Law Times 210–12 (2016), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2816458>;

[8] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial, ‘Court of Appeal just a new version of Supreme Court—only more costly,’ The Irish Times (July 28, 2014, 1:30 AM), Business & Innovation at 7, <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2465554>, <http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/court-of-appeal-just-a-new-version-of-supreme-court-only-more-costly-1.1874746>, 2014 WLNR 20562005;

and,

[9] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial, ‘Time to Open Courts and Let Justice Be Seen,’ The Irish Independent, August 22, 2012, 17:00 PM, at A14, <http://works.bepress.com/seth_barrett_tillman/334/> (hard copy version), <http://tinyurl.com/bsy9789> (available on Nexis), <https://ssrn.com/abstract=2129771>.

And, also, on democracy, free speech, and immigration-related issues: Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘East Wall and the Plantations: Ireland and Its New Migrants,’ The American Spectator (Dec. 6, 2022, 10:48 PM), <https://spectator.org/ireland-new-migrants-east-wall/>, <https://spectator.org/author/seth-barrett-tillman/>, <https://ssrn.com/abstract=4296073>.