However, an audiovisual link or AVL facilities do provide an opportunity for defendants to have faster access to justice. For example, I can speak of many, many occasions in our courts in my region where it was not possible to get a judge to travel the two hours or more to get to the court from, say, Invercargill or Dunedin. However, we could arrange an audio-visual link for a bail application to be made—not always successful, sometimes successful—and that made a big difference for that person and their family. 