Federal Court is struggling to keep pace with the huge number of cases it agrees to decide. Honourable Court schedules and hears 240 hours of oral argument each year, and 178 hours of next year's term will be taken up by cases left over from this year. Surely, the Court cannot be asked to increase its already onerous hours. The most reasonable long-range solution to this problem is to allow the Court to decide many cases without hearing oral argument; in this way the Court might eventually increase
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