Why rise for a judge

The Court Clerk also has a variety of responsibilities for setting up, connecting, and facilitating virtual proceedings being held by telephone or video-conference. In some hearings, such as those dealing with traffic ticket offences under BC laws, judicial justices preside without Court Clerks. When a witness testifies in a hearing or trial, they are first asked to step into the witness box.

They stand while swearing an oath or making a solemn affirmation to tell the truth. The judge will likely then invite them to sit if they wish, or tell them they may sit or stand during their testimony. A witness box usually has a seat with a ledge in front of it to hold papers the witness may be asked to look at. This means anyone who will be testifying in the trial, except for the parties involved, must leave the courtroom and wait outside until they are called to testify.

Drinking water is not being supplied during the pandemic, so witnesses may bring their own water in a clear plastic bottle no larger than one litre and take it with them when they leave. During the pandemic witnesses are required to wait outside the courthouse within a thirty minute distance, so they can attend to testify after being contacted. Lawyers or people representing themselves in a trial stand by a raised lectern on the counsel table and use it to rest their notes when they are questioning witnesses or making opening and closing submissions to the judge.

If they have a lawyer, their lawyer stands beside them. Lawyers will introduce themselves and the parties to the judge, giving their names and correct pronouns, or the judge will ask people for their names and pronouns. People are welcome to observe most courtroom proceedings, subject to current limitations to maintain physical distancing in courthouses and courtrooms. However, members of the public may not use electronic devices of any sort to transmit or receive text, audio- or video-record, photograph or digitally transcribe, any court proceedings.

Know what I mean? Well, I mean we the people should vote and may attention to public life and all sorts of good civics things. But today, you never know when it gets tossed around some loon who needs a shower and wears camouflage and totes a bunch of guns and probably doesn't really know one end of a cow from the other, but likes to spit in the dust while he explains why he has more rights than you do.

In the old, old days of England's royal courts the judge entered carrying a Bible, thought to be the very law itself. Upon the founding of our country, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed on what judges should wear. John Adams, our second president, wanted judges to dress similarly to English judges and wear red robes and wigs. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, preferred that judges wear suits.

The first is the oath of allegiance to the reigning monarch, and the second the judicial oath; these are collectively referred to as the judicial oath. Witnesses giving evidence in court also take an oath, which can be religious different versions exist for members of different faiths or secular — where the witness simply affirms that they will tell the truth. Find out more information on judicial oaths opens in a new tab. Visit the Supreme Court website opens in a new tab. Yes No.