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The bench is usually an elevated desk area that allows a judge to view, and to be seen by, the entire courtroom. The bench was a typical feature of the courts of the Order of St. John in Malta, such as at the Castellania, where judges and the nominated College of Advocates sat for court cases and review laws. [4]
A courtroom at the Cherokee County Courthouse in North Carolina. The judge generally sits behind a raised desk, known as the bench. Behind the judge are the great seal of the jurisdiction and the flags of the appropriate federal and state governments. Judges usually wear a plain black robe (a requirement in many jurisdictions).
A bench trial is a trial by judge, as opposed to a jury. [1] The term applies most appropriately to any administrative hearing in relation to a summary offense to distinguish the type of trial. Many legal systems ( Roman , Islamic ) use bench trials for most or all cases or for certain types of cases.
Some court buildings in Australia include a courtroom specifically called the "banco court", which is a large courtroom where the judges of the court can sit en banc - with in banco, the Medieval Latin term, being preferred in Australia over the Norman French equivalent en banc. They are used for full bench hearings, as well as ceremonies.
The current circuit judge bench is the first to be entirely appointed through the Non-Partisan Court Plan. The Greene County Circuit Court recently got a new addition of a seventh circuit judge.
A convict captured on video launching himself over a courtroom bench violently attacking a Nevada judge earlier this year has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison.. On Tuesday, Judge ...
A full court (less formally, full bench) is a court of law sitting with a greater than normal number of judges. For a court which is usually presided over by one judge, a full court has three or more judges; for a court which, like many appellate courts, normally sits as a bench of three judges, a full court has a bench of five (or more) judges.
To stay the No. 1 syndicated court show, the Hot Bench judges know that everyone has to keep it real. “These are real cases filed across the country in real courthouses,” Judge Yodit Tewolde ...