WHAT ARE COURTS for? Top marks for saying that criminal courts determine guilt and apportion punishment. But I’ll have to mark you down if you said the civil and family courts are there to decide any disputes that litigants care to send them. That’s the last thing judges want.
You can’t blame them. They were overwhelmed before the pandemic. Courts simply don’t have the resources to resolve more than a tiny handful of the financial disputes that arise between businesses and their customers; between the
