What would you do?
Navigate the Courtroom: A Decision-Making Quiz
Test your courtroom decision-making skills in this engaging quiz designed for legal professionals. With 10 challenging scenarios, this quiz offers a realistic glimpse into the dilemmas you may face while navigating the complexities of court appearances.
- 10 multiple-choice questions
- Real-world courtroom scenarios
- Assess your decision-making process
You are in webex filing hearings, and the Court keeps calling on matters that aren't ready to proceed because the informant is yet to speak to you and not responding to online messaging/email. You cant engage in discussions because you are on your feet for the other matters. What do you do?
Ask to stand the matter down and get yelled by the Magistrate for not being properly prepared and holding up the list?
Risk being distracted during the hearing, and keep trying to prep other matters in the background via email/teams?
Fly by the seat of your pants and hope you are experienced enough to ride it through?
You have to appear in 12 committal mentions tomorrow, you have 2 working hours to prepare. What do you do?
Read HUBs and instructions sheet on all matters and stay up late finishing (again)
Rely on instructions sheet for adj applications, skim over HUBs and read more closely statements of witnesses sought for committal
Skim over material, make a table of what's happening in what matter with key comments
Rely on instructions sheets
You are WFH and are in lockdown, appearing in matters of an especially violent or sexual nature. Your young children are at home and you don't want them to hear the content of the discussion/proceeding, but they have been refused entry to childcare bc you're not an emergency worker and you have no additional supports for babysitting available to you.
Set up in an area furthest away from the children, despite it being uncomfortable and not suited to online appearances
Use the TV/Ipad/devices as a 'nanny' even though it isn't how you wish you were parenting
Try to keep your voice down, hope they aren't listening and get on with it
During COVID your team no longer has to travel to regional Victoria for appearances but the Regional Court are repeatedly listing matters on non-OPP days via webex. Sometimes they are only 15 min appearances, but need preparation and are in block lists. How do you share the appearance load?
Allocate those appearances to advocates on their only prep day who are drafting openings/subs or preparing the list work, and get them to sit in a 3 hour block listing waiting to get on whilst working in background?
Brief counsel? (even though its not a whole list to justify a full brief fee)
Do them all yourself as a MPS or manager because your team is already stretched to the max with other appearances/work - at the expense of your own workload (again).
Agree in a stakeholders meeting to go back to OPP days only, but that would mean taking out chunks of time out of the roster for 'unnecessary' travel which is inefficient.
The Judge in your County Court plea is giving you an especially hard time, because he/she doesn't agree with your sentencing instructions from a Crownie. Its becoming a roasting session, with you on the spit and it feels personal. Do you....
Maintain your position (for appeal purposes) and continue to get berated because those are your firm instructions and suck it up.
Make a complaint about the judicial conduct with [at least perceived] risk to your reputation knowing you will still have to appear before them regularly?
Ask to part-hear/stand matters down and go back to the Crownie with the Judges comments and seek review of the RODM.
The Court has advised you of another few hearings that need to be accommodated immediately (same day, usually within 30 min). You have members of your team who always volunteer to pick up those extra appearances despite their workload. You also have the conspicuous few who don't. What do you do?
Allocate it to the person(s) who don't regularly offer even though they are already doing something else substantive in an effort to share the load around more fairly?
Give it to the person who volunteered even though they too are doing another matter because its easier?
Allocate it to the volunteer but have a one on one session with the people who don't volunteer to see why and then decide whether to allocate the next few to them to make up for it.
As MPS/Manager absorb as many of the last minute appearances into your own schedule to avoid overloading your team..
You've busted your chops to prepare a complex and annoying matter and it doesn't get reached. The Court adjourns it to a day/time you aren't available. What do you do?
Move your other commitments around to facilitate you staying in it, so it doesn't have to be re-prepped but forgo the interesting case you'd been waiting to do but now can't?
Seek to be excused and then ask that it be re-allocated to someone else on the team despite the inefficiency of having someone prepare the appearance all over again?
You are rostered to appear in a 2 day, 5 witness committal which you prepare in between your other court commitments. You know your instructor is stressed and stretched and you don't want to add to their load, but the memo doesn't contain all the info you need and you cant find it in TRIM amongst all the files. Do you?
Wait till you've read the whole brief, identified all the issues and give the instructor one list with everything you need, even though by that stage its close to deadline/last minute?
Send multiple emails/requests for information as you discover the issues along the way in an attempt to give them a longer lead time to get back to you - even if that means multiple annoying emails?
Do the balance of the follow-up work yourself because you know they just haven't had time, but neither do you?
Defence file their submissions and psychological report last minute (night before plea) which raises issues of a possible intellectual disability or verdins considerations, but it's really light on at this stage. Do you...?
Accept that there will be yet another file unable to finalise, and submit that it get adjourned for further plea material/reports to properly address the mitigatory criteria?
Accept the diagnosis in the report (even though its light on/nexus tenuous but still there) and submit it has limited weight and have the matter finalised in accordance with existing sentencing instructions?
Put everyone under pressure by getting a last minute (morning of) RODM from a Crownie as to the impact of the report on sentencing instructions and run with those.
Your online hearing is running overtime and you have been busting for the loo for ages, do you?
Seek leave for a short break - turn your video off, remember to MUTE and go?
Squirm your way through the hearing and hope for the best?
Feign tech difficulties - they happen often enough for real!
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