The civil delays brng the administration of justice into disrepute.  Lawyers have told me to walk away because, whatever the merits of my claim might be, the courts are likely to deny the claim simply to conserve court resources for other cases.

We don't need more court rooms.  We need judges who start earlier in the morning and a second set of judges to work after the first set is finished.  And yes, we do need about 50% more judges to make the civil and criminal systems work properly.  The length of criminal trials is one of the culprits in the delay of civil claims since they compete for the same scarce resource: judges.