The Court
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| First episode date | March 26, 2002 |
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| Final episode date | April 9, 2002 |
| Networks | American Broadcasting Company |
| Creators | Tom Schulman |
| Oliver Goldstick | |
| Apr 9, 2002 | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2600110 |
About The Court
A pragmatic politician strives to create rapport with her young law clerks while carefully picking her way through the strongly divided trenches of her liberal and conservative Supreme Court colleagues.
Stella Creasy: MP trolled as 'unfit mother' pushes for law change
... Shaking " I sat in The Court clutching myself to stop myself from shaking because I was thinking about what this man was doing, and thinking about my family, " Ms Creasy told the BBC...
British lawyers could be sent to Rwandan courts as part of asylum plans
... Downing Street said in response that it would publish a treaty with Kigali to address The Court s concerns...
Essequibo: Venezuelans vote to claim Guyana-controlled oil region
... Venezuela has not accepted that the ICJ has jurisdiction over this issue, but has so far continued to attend The Court s hearings...
Shea Ryan: Mother to sue firm over boy's manhole death
... " The Court heard the building site was close to a playpark but it was only secured by a single fence which had been vandalised in the past and breached on six occasions...
Judge taken to hospital after family court assault
... BBC Correspondents became familiar with the security in local family courts during reporting under the this year, There is a thorough search process at the main front door, but no guards are visible in the corridors or outside The Courtrooms themselves...
The Vivienne: Drag Race star attack was homophobic - magistrates
... During proceedings, The Court was shown CCTV footage of the altercation, which took place at the Edge Lane branch of the fast food restaurant...
Sandra Day O'Connor: A ranch girl who became 'queen of the court'
... She held the balance of power on The Court for almost two decades, making her one of the most powerful women in the country, notorious in all but name...
George Santos faces expulsion in historic House vote
... Another Republican congressman, Michael Lawler, said: " He can defend himself in The Court of law, but for the purposes of this body, he s got to go...
Judges unlawfully releasing defendants, court hears
Crown Court judges have been releasing potentially dangerous criminals unlawfully because of delays linked to The Criminal barristers' strike, The High Court has heard.
Lawyers for The Director of public prosecutions (DPP) said judges must be stopped from bailing defendants whose trials have been put off for months.
It is a highly significant challenge to decisions by trial judges in England.
Barristers are in a dispute with the government over legal aid funding.
The indefinite, uninterrupted strike by barristers in England and Wales is an escalation of industrial action over pay, which began in April.
The Bbc has discovered that at least a dozen defendants have been told in recent weeks they would be bailed back in to the community because of a lack of barristers to enable their cases to be heard.
In each custody ruling, judges said they had no power to keep defendants in jail beyond The Standard six-month pre-trial Limit - because The Law does not let them consider The Strike as a " good and sufficient" reason to do so.
In one recent decision, a senior judge at Oxford Crown Court said he could not extend the custody of four alleged murderers whose trial had been put back.
Two defendants waiting for trial in Manchester for alleged serious violence have also been released.
At other courts, one judge bailed a defendant charged with kidnapping with intention to commit a sexual offence, while another bailed someone facing serious drugs gang and county lines slavery charges.
Brought by Crown Prosecution Service head Max Hill KC, The Test case at The High Court is focusing on cases in Bristol and Manchester.
Tom Little KC, for The Director of public prosecutions, told The High Court The Law required Crown Court judges to take The Strike into account as a reason to keep defendants behind bars while awaiting trial.
" Custody Time Limit applications are not The Place to second-guess fine judgments about funding, " he told The Court .
" This is not a position where no trial is possible but a situation where individual advocates have taken a decision not to attend. "
In one case being examined, the Bristol trial of a defendant accused of threatening someone with a razor failed to go ahead because of The Strike .
Judge Peter Blair in Bristol said the government had had " many many months" to end the barristers' industrial action, adding: " In my view today's predicament arises precisely because of The Chronic and predictable consequences of long-term underfunding. "
Lawyers for the DPP told The High Court that those comments went beyond The Judge 's legal responsibilities.
" [The Judge ] is attributing fault and blame to the government and has entered into The Arena and has done so with no detailed argument or evidence, " said Mr Little. " He has taken into account a matter he should not have done. "
But lawyers acting for three of The Defendants in the cases being considered said the government's failure to prevent foreseeable delays did not mean judges had unchecked power to keep people Locked Up .
" The [Bristol judge] has said nothing that is wrong, improper or inaccurate, " said David Hughes , for one of The Defendants .
" He was perfectly entitled to hold the views that he did based on that knowledge and experience.
" He was just expressing what The Situation is. The dispute has been going on for many months Now - and he was entitled to say that there has been a failure to address the dispute in a system that has primary legislation that makes time limits for custody in advance of trial. "
The case continues. Dame Victoria Sharp , one of England's most senior judges, said The High Court would rule in The Coming days.
Source of news: bbc.com
