Now, obviously that increase, on the face of it, would be a concern to most. But some more investigation has shown that without notice applications actually take 2.1 times more court time than on notice applications. That means that the children involved in those cases and the parents involved in those cases in the increasing number of without notice applications are actually spending a lot more time appearing before the courts and it is taking a lot longer for those disputes to be resolved. Justice tells me that it takes on average 37 days to resolve a case through mediation, while if the issue is going through court it can take close to 270 days.