Whereas judges in American courts often allow proceedings to be televised, for example, cameras are banned from all Canadian courts, except the country's Supreme Court.
The pressure in the abattoir to get orders out was relentless, but he often brought proceedings to a standstill when he saw rule violations.
THE long and often fraught proceedings of the court set up to try the leaders of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge at last came to a head this week on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
In 2012, nearly a third of violations concerned the right to a fair trial – either because the trial concerned was plainly not fair or, often, because proceedings took too long.
Depressingly often, the proceedings are now described as a farce, which, if accurate, reduces the witnesses to minor roles in the comedy, and their accounts of torture and executions to bits of courtroom drama padding, quite secondary to the antics of the irrepressible celebrity in the dock, who orders one witness: "Do not interrupt me, lad".
Schneiderman cited reports that that half a million of the comments appear to have been filed from Russian email addresses, a fact that net neutrality advocates likely hope will stoke further public interest in the often dry proceedings of the communications regulatory body.
If there is a dispute, foreign corporations can skirt domestic courts and directly challenge any policy or action of a sovereign government in often secret proceedings presided over not by judges, but by arbitrators, often corporate lawyers themselves.
If the case ends up in a tribunal then the often-lengthy proceedings and cross-examinations can have severe psychological repercussions.
Proposals have been made to allow some Chagossians to return to work in a small eco-village and science station, but the often-heated proceedings were dominated by many islanders' enduring fury at having been kicked out of their homes to make way for the base between 1968 and 1973.
Interpretation and translation are often central to proceedings for deportation, asylum, or welfare removal.
