A SOUTH Australian barrister says the state's courts are the worst in the country.
David Edwardson, QC, says chronic under-resourcing means that victims and offenders must wait longer for overworked judges to deliver justice.
"Our courts are the worst in the country, we are completely under-resourced and there are not enough courtrooms or judges ... it's that simple," he told the Adelaide Advertiser on Monday.
"Our courts are falling apart - they are just a joke - and their condition is very, very poor.
"To be brutally frank, it really is no more than a reflection of the government's pathological hatred of the legal profession and refusal to properly resource the courts."
Morry Bailes, president of the Law Society of South Australia, said there had been a chronic under-funding of the law in South Australia for some time.
He said the state does not have its full quota of judges, and even if it did the argument might be that it didn't have enough.
"Its probably the District Court where we're noticing the cracks beginning to appear," he told ABC radio.
Mr Bailes said there had been a significant increase in the number of criminal matters coming before the District Court in recent years with no corresponding increase in the number of judges, which meant that more cases were being delayed.
In Western Australia, he said, the wait for a District Court trial was about six to eight weeks, but in South Australia it could be a year to two years.
But acting Attorney-General Jack Snelling said the solution to any problem was not just "throwing more money at it".
"The answer is to make sure our legal system works as efficiently as possible to make sure cases are heard as quickly as possible," he said.
Opposition justice spokesman Stephen Wade said the government needed to stop blaming others for the issues and engage more positively with the legal profession and the courts.
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