When I was in the military, I was posted every 3 years or so, and often the posting of yourself and those around you led to many tasks being simply forgotten about and never completed. Not long before I left one particular posting, I was asked to redesign the workshop's floor to optimise space, and concluded that our biggest restriction to the redesign was the lack of industrial shelving. In my final days there, a civilian representative from a shelving manufacturer arrived and we designed and ordered what was needed.
Some 4½ years later I was posted back to the same unit to find that just 3 weeks earlier, and enormous consignment of shelving had arrived on pallets, and nobody of the current detachment had the slightest idea what the feck it was, why it had been delivered and what they should do with it. When I explained to the Company Commander what it was, and why it had been ordered, he basically said he didn't like the idea and we didn't need it. We then waited almost another 12 months before another unit came and collected the stuff for their workplace.
As bizarre story I know, but the basic message is that when things take this long the intended outcomes seldom match the final result, and these charges have all the hallmarks of a process that has gone on too long, has probably suffered from mission drift and has simply lost all momentum. It wouldn't surprise me if the judges have had their will to live sucked out of them and just about all involved wish it had never started.
Some 4½ years later I was posted back to the same unit to find that just 3 weeks earlier, and enormous consignment of shelving had arrived on pallets, and nobody of the current detachment had the slightest idea what the feck it was, why it had been delivered and what they should do with it. When I explained to the Company Commander what it was, and why it had been ordered, he basically said he didn't like the idea and we didn't need it. We then waited almost another 12 months before another unit came and collected the stuff for their workplace.
As bizarre story I know, but the basic message is that when things take this long the intended outcomes seldom match the final result, and these charges have all the hallmarks of a process that has gone on too long, has probably suffered from mission drift and has simply lost all momentum. It wouldn't surprise me if the judges have had their will to live sucked out of them and just about all involved wish it had never started.