I happen to be sitting in the Kolding Caffe next to a bunch of people from one of the courts in the area. Some of them are judges and some are their assistants. I am trying not to listen to what they are saying, but an occasional sentence comes my way nonetheless. It does not take me long to come up with a hypothesis of sorts: many complexities faced by the courts in this country have to do with the fact that a large proportion of court cases take many years to resolve. Thus oversights, errors, confusions, and other conundrums. Viviane Reding comes to mind at once (“Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,” March 18, 2014). Over time, papers concerning court cases accumulate, and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep them in one place, let alone to understand them all in requisite detail. The court people perforce forget what is where over the years. In addition, they change all the time, and all the newcomers have to go by are innumerable piles of papers left by their predecessors. In the last analysis, the denial of justice has to do with the impossibility of keeping everything regarding a particular court case in one mind over longer stretches of time. This is why justice delayed is a problem even for the court people, let alone for those directly involved in particular court cases. Simply put, justice delayed is a mess.