Court Room Mouse who "runs the investigative court reporting blog, Mouse in The Court" - The Times. Open Justice/niche & nuanced (AKA Daniel Cloake)
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What a brilliant headline @BBCNews 👏
ALT BBC News website. Headline reads “The last time a Kansas Democrat was in the Senate, the Wizard of Oz was in cinemas”
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Top tip for budding court journos - don't wait for the case you went for. Go in and listen to the cases beforehand, you might just get a cracker.
I now have an exclusive with nowhere for it to go, when the others were waiting for the case to be called.
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"I'm very calm and I don’t appreciate the court telling me to calm down...I'm perfectly calm and perfectly reasonable" says def lawyer adding he's "genuinely surprised and shocked the biggest prosecuting agency don't have access to the database"
After three failed attempts to obtain a pre-sentence report, a 14-year-old girl has finally been sentenced at Stratford Youth Court, following months of delays and repeated apologies from the court.
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At 14.35 the hearing concluded. Thanks for reading.
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With 10 minutes to go seats are rapidly running out in the public gallery
This is not one of the big gothic court rooms you might expect to see in Harry Potter, but a more modern wood panelled affair
A sea of laptops and notebooks are ready and poised in front of me