Should cases be restarted?

Certainly, this is a challenge for a young bright articulate attorney to flex his or her muscles voluntarily and do some challenging research into the authorities which would properly inform opinion.

I make the following observations: (a) Are the proceedings of courts (magisterial or high) not being recorded by verbatim reporters? Should this be the case, cannot any magistrate worth his or her salt read these transcripts and form an opinion, thus obviating the need for the humbug and the cost of restarting? If not, why is this not so? Indeed, here lies yet another constraint on the administration of justice.

(b) Is this not yet another reason for abolishing repetitious preliminary hearings? As I have said before, the matter of the administration of justice is of concern to all citizens and ought not to be confined to, and left to the domain of, legal practitioners alone, as seems to be the case at present. Let us all join in the debate.

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