{"id":288,"date":"2006-03-24T23:50:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-24T23:50:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T23:50:39","slug":"judge-asks-too-many-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Judge asks too many questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"><font face=Verdana size=2>A first instance judge is entitled to a wide degree of latitude in the way in which he conducted proceedings in his court. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the judicial function is to deal with cases justly in accordance with the overriding objective as expressed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dca.gov.uk\/civil\/procrules_fin\/\">Civil Procedure Rules<\/a> 1.1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2006\/281.html\"><i>The London Borough of Southwark v Kofi-Adu <\/i>[2006] CA<\/a> (a housing possession case) the judge went beyond this by continually interrupting and asking questions; the Court of Appeal ordered a retrial.<\/p>\n<p>Although first instance judges rightly tend to be very much more proactive and interventionist than their predecessors, it remained the case that interventions by a judge carry the risk of depriving himself of the advantage of calm and dispassionate observation. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first instance judge is entitled to a wide degree of latitude in the way in which he conducted proceedings in his court. Ultimately, the judicial function is to deal with cases justly in accordance with the overriding objective as expressed in Civil Procedure Rules 1.1.&nbsp; In The London Borough of Southwark v Kofi-Adu [2006] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}