⁶⁹Rt Hon Lo rd Howe of Aberavon QC, “Managing t he Statute Book”  Statute Law Review, Volume 13 Number 3, pp 165-178 (1992). 49 was given. Volume 3 for the same year contains reports of 40 decisions of the Court of Appeal and Privy Council, in 4 of which more than one judgment was given. 98 I   am   far   from   suggesting   there   is   anything   inherently   wrong   with   multiple judgments. Different judicial perspectives and explanations can elucidate complex legal problems. One suspects a lot depends on the type of case before the court and whether it is a 3, 5, or 7 judge court. If the issues were simple, multiple judgments and long judgments would doubtless be rare. A reader may, however, feel more confident about ascertaining the state of the law by reading a single judgment and not having to be on the lookout for subtle variations that can be a feature of several judgments.  I  mention  judge-made  law  to  illustrate  the  point  that,  in  looking  at accessibility of the common law, there are no absolutes either. Too much law 99 Everyone, like Tacitus, complains there is too much legislation. They point to the increasing volume of statutes, regulations, orders, notices, codes, and guidelines that daily emanate from legislatures and those who have law-making powers. A former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and for a time  one  of the Government’s busine ss managers, Lord Howe QC, described it as “legislative  lust”.⁶⁹ The following table shows the number of pages of Acts passed and regulations made in New Zealand in each of the years 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, and 2003.