> No kidding your experiences with courts have been
> negative. Even if everything else was perfect,
> whatever that means, litigation occurs because people
> have disputes so serious they cannot resolve them
> without recourse to invoking the power of the state
> (or anyway, as in medieval Iceland, the community).
Judging from The Saga of Burnt Njall, litigation in medieval Iceland involved invoking the power of burying the hatchet in a skull.
-- Andy