Have you ever attended a trial/court case?

A mate of mine was up in court for a misdemeanour back in the mid-90’s. A load of us hit the sauce and called down to the court. As the judge was passing sentence one of the lads shouted ‘crucify him’ and another ‘the hangman’s rope’. The judge wasn’t impressed and had us all ejected from the court while threatening us with contempt of court. Seemed funny at the time.

Edgware wrote: »

Yes but Santiagos death while tragic saved lives

Santiago's passing was no tragedy.

C'est la vie.

Your Face wrote: »

That's what I said !
That hotshot lawyer just couldn't handle the truth.

He got bullied into that court room by the memory of a dead lawyer

I was following a local authority initiated case I that had an interest in for a while.

It was in the district court and I got to see lots of other cases because of the time wasting scheduling that goes on. The case list for the day started being called at 10am and no none of them had a clue when they might be actually called, usually because the garda list of cases to be heard dealing with driving offences was always really long and you could never predict how long any of the many hearings was going to take. it was far worse when the TV licence inspector appeared with his long list of dangerous non fee paying criminals to prosecute.

Lots and lots of people wasting lots and lots of time, just hanging around, waiting to see when their particular case might make it up the list.

There must be a better way of doing court business in the 21st century? Most of the time it's all a bit of a circus and you leave wondering what on earth is going on and how much is it costing to operate in what seems like total confusion.