Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 8 June 2016.
It was a fundamental principle of Welsh law until 1536, and a fundamental principle of what we would now describe, I suppose, as the law of England and Wales since then, that justice comes to people. That’s the reason why High Court justices travel around. In the last few years it’s now been suggested that people have to go to justice, and travel a long distance, and when they get there, not get representation either, while they’re at it. That shows how much of a deterioration there’s been in the justice system, but I’m fully in agreement with him that there’s a need to review the impact on people, because as somebody who worked in the courts for many, many years I can see nothing now but things getting slower and justice being either denied or delayed to too many people.