75ZT CommunityA social community of enthusiasts, owners, appreciators and collectors. With expert knowledge of all things from MG to Rover and beyond.2014-01-14T22:29:15+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/feed.php?f=2&t=7765&mode2014-01-14T22:29:15+00:002014-01-14T22:29:15+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7765&p=72930#p72930
]]>2014-01-14T20:23:11+00:002014-01-14T20:23:11+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7765&p=72919#p72919 I've just seen a few minutes of one of the soaps SWMBO watches, Emmerdale, during which a bail hearing is supposed to have taken place.
It might "make good telly" but it really doesn't bear any resemblance to what really happens, starting off with the dip-stick in the public gallery with his hat on, followed by a prosecution application to remand in custody giving so little evidence that if it were in my Court, I'd be asking several pertinent questions of the prosecutor, a defence advocate who ought to be censured by the Law Society (the Solicitor's professional body) for totally ignoring his clients (presumed) instructions and ending up with a Magistrate who laid himself open to an accusation of abuse of process.
OK, I know it is merely fiction but for heaven's sake, they got absolutely nothing right and in doing so, by sheer laziness, perpetuated the hackneyed myths surrounding the Courts' processes.