Frank,
All courts have an emergency system in place for such occasions. How do you think the criminal system can find a magistrate at ungodly hours in the morning when required?
I have applied for emergency orders in the Family Court where it was suspected that a parent was about to remove their child from the state. The court heard the matter by telephone and made interim orders within 5 minutes.
I can't give you a point of contact now as I haven't worked as a lawyer for over 15 years but the legal system is well aware of the need for urgent intervention and it can be done.
The matter of extending the grounding only exacerbates the financial losses and generally a Company goes under not being able to service it's debts. Not to mention Employee entitlements.
Agreed. The legal system requires deep pockets unfortunately but then so should aviation otherwise you are a problem waiting to happen.