Pending magisterial inquiries (2)

I fully sympathise with Magistrate Giovanni Grixti when he expresses his frustration at being put in the same basket as other magistrates whose output leaves much to be desired (The Sunday Times, July 6) I am sure that it was not the minister's intention to put him in a bad light. I was under the impression that as is the practice elsewhere, magistrates and judges use a computer for their work, doing away with the need for typists; thus saving a lot of manpower and money instead of asking for overtime for the staff. Perhaps the IT government much heralded by Austin Gatt has yet to find its way through the backlog of cases in our courts.