Finding Dates

It continually astonishes me that scheduling Court matters is so difficult and time-consuming. Every Court has its own schedule, and every judge has a great deal of control of her/his docket - and sometimes every clerk/recorder, too. And yet, most lawyers appear in several Courts and therefore scheduling conflicts are common.

Today, I tried to schedule a one-day trial for a man in custody. Every date the Court had was a date I had another matter in another Court. The Crown suggested breaking the trial into half-days and we slotted it in.

As a 2008 Call with only a few dozen clients, it's only going to get worse.