Joshua, assaults in court are, I imagine, pretty rare, but I remember hearing directly of three.
Anne Goddard, sitting in the Old Bailey, had a glass water carafe thrown at her causing some injury to her head. Tough woman that she was, she insisted on sitting the next day. In an immigration court an angry friend of the appellant, apparently a Nigerian boxer, approached the bench and hovered over it menacingly, causing the judge such alarm that he had to retire for a while to compose himself. In a county court in Wales a defendant who had failed to file evidence in time and was refused leave to submit it on the day, in frustration threw his file at the judge, hitting him causing him surprise but no injury. In this last case the LCD refused to take any action.
Joshua, assaults in court are, I imagine, pretty rare, but I remember hearing directly of three.
Anne Goddard, sitting in the Old Bailey, had a glass water carafe thrown at her causing some injury to her head. Tough woman that she was, she insisted on sitting the next day. In an immigration court an angry friend of the appellant, apparently a Nigerian boxer, approached the bench and hovered over it menacingly, causing the judge such alarm that he had to retire for a while to compose himself. In a county court in Wales a defendant who had failed to file evidence in time and was refused leave to submit it on the day, in frustration threw his file at the judge, hitting him causing him surprise but no injury. In this last case the LCD refused to take any action.
It's much worse now. Listen to the podcast on Monday.