part-heard

Once a trial goes part-heard the court has to find a date when the bench can re-assemble not always easy with a lay bench, especially in the holiday season, or if, as happened recently, one of its members is eight months pregnant, or if one or more has a full-time job.

Archive 2009-03-01 Bystander 2009

I can't say anything about the case, but I can say that the court's admin staff find part-heard trials disruptive of their listing process.

Unfinished Business Bystander 2009

The trial itself finally came on at such a late hour that we clearly had to accept its going part-heard on the whole, a Bad Thing or putting it all off to another day.

Archive 2009-05-01 Bystander 2009

These include the allegations as to being requested not to sit as a magistrate; being suspended from sitting as a magistrate; being removed from a part-heard case; and as to the delay that occurred between being informed that she could resume sitting as a magistrate and being given sittings.

Archive 2009-08-01 Bystander 2009

There are a lot of things to consider when deciding to adjourn part-heard, not least the stress and inconvenience caused to witnesses.

Unfinished Business Bystander 2009

There are a lot of things to consider when deciding to adjourn part-heard, not least the stress and inconvenience caused to witnesses.

Archive 2009-03-01 Bystander 2009

The more observant among you will have noticed that I recently posted about part-heard cases.

False Economy Bystander 2009

The trial itself finally came on at such a late hour that we clearly had to accept its going part-heard on the whole, a Bad Thing or putting it all off to another day.

Oddly Familiar Bystander 2009

As if to exact revenge the gods allocated me today to a case that - yes - went part-heard.

False Economy Bystander 2009

I have chaired the second day of a part-heard case in each of the last two weeks, and I have another in my diary for next month.

Archive 2009-06-01 Bystander 2009