In my experience both as an attorney and as a defendant (moving violation) the court works really well considering the enormous volume of stuff it has to deal with on a constant basis. The justice court judges ironically are the most in touch, and sharpest judges in the state. Much more so than the district or appellate judges. It's counterintuitive but I think the reason for it is that these judges have to be able to deal with people directly more, and have huge amounts of cases constantly coming through.