I don't think you can say MMPs have a direct impact on the civil justice system. Clearly MMPs have an impact on the criminal justice system. As I said, people are going to fight the case more if there's a clearly set penalty that they know they have to try to avoid. That, then, of course, might increase trial length or the number of trials, and if people are in custody, then clearly there are charter issues that those people have priority to the trial systems and to court rooms and judges. Of course, if that means chief judges have to reassign judges from the civil side or the family side to the criminal side, clearly we would have an impact on the civil justice system.
On February 23rd, 2016. See this statement in context.