Attending and Observing Trial proceedings — civil and criminal

You have walked past the Mumbai sessions court or the High Court a hundred times and never gone in. Anyone can. The law makes a courtroom a public place, and that is exactly why your syllabus sends you there. The question for this topic is practical: once you are sitting on the back bench, what should you look at, in what order, and what should be in your notebook when you leave?

In two minutes

A court is an open place by law, so you may sit in and watch a trial; the skill is to know which stage of the case you are seeing, record what each side did at that stage, and leave with a dated, usable note.

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