4 has not yet asked the door-keeper.  As he can no longer raise his stiffening body, he beckons the man over.  The door-keeper has to  bend  down  low  to  him,  for  the  difference  in  size  between them has changed very much to the man’s disadvantage. ‘What is it you want to know now then?’ asks the door-keeper.   ‘You’re  insatiable.’    ‘All  men  are  intent  on  the  Law’,  says  the man, ‘but why is it that in all these many years no one other than myself  has  asked  to  enter?’    The  door-keeper  realises  that  the man is nearing his end and his hearing is fading, and in order to make himself heard he bellows at him: ‘No one else could gain admission here, because this door was intended only for you.  I shall now go and close it.’” The  jurisprudential  philosopher,  Roscoe  Pound,  used  a  different  image,  that  of  a queue, to highlight the difficulties relating to accessibility.³  He compared the law to a cinema,  in  which  a  new  and  well-advertised  film  starring  some  popular  star  is showing.  There is a queue outside the ticket window, where many more people than the theatre can accommodate are seeking admission.  If those seeking admission did not line up in an orderly fashion, it might not be possible for as many to get in, or at least only the strongest could fight their way in.  The process would not only be long and difficult but it might also result in injury and affect the ability of the people who do get in to enjoy the show.  The law – like the queue – is better than anarchy, but produces its own frustrations and desire for a better way of managing access. In both these metaphors for access to the law, the goal of ultimate justice is alluring and  has  the  appearance  of  accessibility  but  something  –  guard  or  queue  –  restricts access.  These metaphors reflect popular views of the inaccessibility of the law and justice and of the courts, but whereas in Kafka’s imagined world the quest for access is repeatedly frustrated and ultimately shown to be hopeless, in Pound’s trope there is hope for some, but there might be a better way to deliver justice to many more.  This, in  the  end,  is  the  goal  of  law  reform  –  to  progress  incrementally  from  a  basically good,  if  in  some  respects  flawed  or  inadequate  system  of  justice,  to  a  better  one  – more just, more transparent, cheaper, faster, and final.  It is not that ordinary people despair at the possibility of justice, nor do they necessarily think of legal process as inimical  to  a  just  result  (or  differ  radically  in  their  conception  of  what  that  just                                                 3   Pound,  Roscoe  Social  Control  Through  Law  New  Jersey,  Transaction  Publishers:  1997  (reprint, first published Yale University Press: 1942) at 63.