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Television courtroom broadcasting : distraction effects and eye-tracking
\"Are witnesses, jurors, or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or the other, the U.S. Supreme Court has recommended additional research on the matter. Answering the court's recommendation, this proof-of-concept study demonstrates for the first time that eye-tracking technology can now accurately determine whether courtroom actors look at the television cameras in the courtroom and for how long. In doing so, television courtroom broadcasting opens the door to a new era of research on the effects of in-court distraction\"--Provided by publisher.
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Effect of a conflict management workshop with simulated mediation and mock court proceedings: a mixed-methods study
Background
Inadequate medicolegal training contributes to physician anxiety and defensive medicine practices. To address this issue, we implemented a novel pedagogical approach incorporating simulated mediation and mock court proceedings into a medical course to enhance medicolegal competency among medical students.
Methods
This study was conducted in August 2022 that recruited medical students preparing for clinical rotations. Students completed a 4-part 150-minute workshop that covered simulated mediation, mock court, debriefing, and reflection sessions. During the simulated mediation session, the participants watched expert-recorded videos of different medical mediation perspectives, followed by small-group discussions with real-time feedback. During the mock court session, a judge-led multidisciplinary expert group demonstrated actual litigation process. Data were collected by using an online questionnaire, including structured and semi-structured items.
Results
For quantitative analysis, 157 valid responses were analyzed and the questionnaire had satisfactory internal consistency. Quantitative analysis revealed significant improvements in medicolegal knowledge, empathy, and physician–patient communication, with postworkshop mean scores being significantly higher than preworkshop scores. Participant feedback indicated high satisfaction levels, with 66.9% of participants endorsing the effectiveness of simulations for learning. Qualitative analysis of 113 student reflections identified 3 themes: medicolegal competencies, mutual engagement in communication, and legal and professional reflections.
Conclusions
This brief conflict management workshop using simulated mediation and mock court proceedings effectively enhanced medical students’ perceived medicolegal knowledge, empathy, and dispute resolution skills. However, students’ unfamiliarity with legal terminology highlighted learning barriers that require interdisciplinary collaboration with legal professionals. Integrating such simulations with legal expert involvement in future medicolegal education is recommended.
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Legal technology acceptance in Vietnam’s courts
Courts are high-stakes institutions, where the influence of the use of legal technology (legaltech) may not be confined to the individuals utilizing the tools. The existing evidence is insufficient for predicting the approval of legaltech in court proceedings. We aimed to provide empirical support for utilizing the technology acceptance model by recognizing individuals’ perceptions of legaltech in court proceedings. Furthermore, we suggest possible distinctions in these perceptions between those with and without court experience, in the legal field versus others, men versus women, and younger versus older individuals. This study’s main purpose is to offer important insights into the determinants that impact the acceptability of legal technology within the Vietnamese court system. The findings were examined by applying the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique. Based on the results, the acceptance of technology in court proceedings is mostly influenced by views on its utility. Furthermore, trust is crucial and is influenced by perceived risk and expertise. It is recommended that policymakers and court administrators prioritize the enhancement of these aspects to promote the acceptance and utilization of legal technology in Vietnam’s courts, leading to more efficient and impactful judicial procedures.
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From the colonial to the contemporary : images, iconography, memories, and performances of law in India's high courts
\"From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. It is based upon ethnographic research work and data collected from interviews with judges, lawyers, court staff, press reporters and other persons associated with the courts. Observing the courts through the in vivo, in trial and practice, the book asks questions at different registers, including the impact of the architecture of the courts, the contestation around the renaming of the high courts, the debate over the use of English versus regional languages, forms of addressing the court, the dress worn by different court actors, rules on photography, video recording, live telecasting of court proceedings, use of CCTV cameras and the alternatives to courtroom sketching, and the ceremony and ritual that exists in daily court proceedings. The three colonial high courts studied in this book share a recurring historical tension between the Indian and British notions of justice. This tension is apparent in the semiotics of the legal spaces of these courts and is transmitted through oral history as narrated by the judges, lawyers and court staff who are interviewed. The contemporary understandings of these court personnel are therefore seen to have deep historical roots. In this context, the architecture and judicial iconography of the high courts helps to constitute, preserve and reinforce the ambivalent relationship that the court shares with its own contested image\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Common law in an uncommon courtroom : judicial interpreting in Hong Kong
This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised, in particular, by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society.
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The psychology of the Supreme Court
With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land. Who are the justices that run it and how do they make their decisions? The Psychology of the Supreme Court examines the psychology of Supreme Court decision-making. The book seeks to help us understand all aspects of the Supreme Court's functioning from a psychological perspective. It addresses factors of influence, including the background of the justices, how they are nominated and appointed, the role of their law clerks, the power of the Chief Justice, and day-to-day life in the Court. The author uses psychological concepts and research findings from the social sciences to examine the steps of the decision-making process, as well as the ways in which the justices seek to remain collegial in the face of conflict, and the degree of predictability in their votes.
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Praxis and Paradox: Inside the Black Box of Eviction Court
In the American legal system, we typically conceive of legal disputes as governed by specific rules and procedures, resolved in a formalized court setting, with lawyers shepherding both parties through an adversarial process involving the introduction of evidence and burdens of proof. The often-highlighted exception to this understanding is the mass, assembly-line processing of cases, whether civil or criminal, in large, urban, lower-level courts. The gap left unfilled by either of these two narratives is how \"court\" functions for the average unrepresented litigant in smaller and nonurban jurisdictions across the United States.
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Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James
Since the eighteenth century, interpreters of the Letter of James have pointed to a judicial assembly as the envisaged background for Jas 2:1–7. In particular, commentators have identified rabbinic examples as parallels for the type of setting that the letter describes. However, one can also consider Jas 2:1–7 in light of the theatricality of the Roman courtroom. Theatrics figured centrally in Roman social and political life. In Roman juridical contexts visual effects such as gestures and dress functioned importantly for the outcome of a trial. In this study I consider Jas 2:1–7 in comparison with court proceedings and legal issues, but with a focus on the dress of the man in “shining clothes” (ἐσθῆτι λαμπρᾷ) and the poor man in “dirty clothes” (ῥυπαρᾷ ἐσθῆτι). I explore the peculiar Roman practice of donning “filthy” (sordes) dress as a means of procuring support from jurors and judges, who themselves were susceptible to participating in partiality. I argue that a court setting makes the most sense for Jas 2:1–7: Why else would the letter writer include these details of dress?
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\THAT'S NOT MY NAME\: THE LINGUISTIC VIOLENCE OF MISNAMING PARTIES IN COURT PROCEEDINGS
This Article calls attention to the harms done when parties are misnamed in legal proceedings. Misnaming, which many might initially consider trivial, is properly understood as a form of linguistic violence that can inflict dignitary harms as well as have material consequences. Misnaming takes on a different valence when it is done by the state. This Article focuses on the misnaming of Indigenous, Asian, and Latine people, beginning first with the way misnaming is done by the administrative state. The authors then discuss misnaming as it has operated in legal proceedings, providing both historical and contemporary examples from federal and Washington state proceedings. The Article then describes the dignitary harms and material consequences when the state misnames parties. The problem is particularly acute for Latine people because state actors are inconsistent in how names are recorded. As a result, many Latine people accumulate AKAs or aliases based on inconsistent recording of accented letters or inconsistent recording of patrilineal and matrilineal surnames. These AKAs or aliases may impact police encounters or trial court determinations of pretrial release. The material consequences extend beyond the legal system and can impact hiring decisions by employers or leasing decisions by landlords who may regard the applicant with suspicion when they learn of the AKAs or aliases through the ubiquitous use of background checks. The Article closes with suggestions to address misnaming by the state and in legal proceedings.
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