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Application for Admission to the Bar Applicant name: Attempted Socialism Part One: Experience as a Justice or counsel 1. Have you served as a Justice (including as a Temporary Hearing Officer)? <Yes> (if No, move to question 5) 2. Between what dates did you serve as a Justice (including as a...

The prosecution has called @St George as a witness. I note, because of the fairly lengthy objection to calling St George as a witness, that I will aim to resolve any objections to specific questions faster. St George, please swear the following oath as a witness: "I swear to tell the truth, the...

I will start with a bit of explainer this time, because 'nolo contendere' or, in English, 'no contest', is not as straightforward as guilty and not guilty are. Many crimes, both in real life and in this game, require two elements: An overt act, and a criminal intent (Mens rea, literally...

Whenever a Justice is unavailable, the Court shall appoint a Temporary Hearing Officer (THO). This list contains people willing to serve, with relevant prior experience, and notes whether they are currently available to serve as THO. While the list is intended to give future Courts a shortlist...

The Court has discussed codifying prosecutor discretion n the Court Procedures. This is not something that should be done lightly, as one can easily see from adverse results in real life, and as such the Court invites public feedback on the topic. Our system of open submission of indictments...

It has been an unspoken tradition that Justices who are functionally absent have been labelled as ‘abstaining’ on R4Rs. That has not been necessary while I have been on the Court, but one needs only to go back in the Rulings Registry to see that absence without temporary replacement has been a...

In the matter of The North Pacific v. KEKISTON, GrandEngland, the indictment is accepted by the Court. The Court is now in session. @Attempted Socialism will serve as Moderating Justice, @Simone will serve as Standby Hearing Officer. @Lord Dominator serves as Temporary Hearing Officer in place...

Dear Citizens. In the current Court term we have been discussing various options to improve the Court as such. One of the simpler ideas is a public list of available THOs, where interested and available citizens can sign up. The Court has often employed an informal shortlist of candidates...

Hello dear students! Some of you have asked whether I would be interested in hosting a lesson on a topic I know something about. I put out feelers to those who expressed the most interest, and they picked Politics of Authoritarian Rule by Milan Svolik. However, as I suspect that most of you...

First things first. I had not planned to run for a third term at this point. My plan was to step down for a while and do other things. But there can be no doubt that the last month has revealed deficiencies in both how the Court operates and how our general culture both incentivise and pressure...

In the matter of The North Pacific v. St George, the indictment is accepted by the Court. The Court is now in session. @Eluvatar will serve as Moderating Justice, @Oracle will serve as Standby Hearing Officer. As Pallaith is recused in the matter and @Sanctaria resigned as Temporary Hearing...

The thread is here: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9196870/ The nation seems to have CTE 150 days ago, so I don't know how Hulldom could ban it yesterday. I suspect that the nation was deleted by mods, in which case I would be unwilling to take the case...

July 12, 2022 02:22]Sil Dorsett: It's been a pleasure serving with all of you! Now, I give my seat to Dreadton. See ya! [02:23]Kronos: See ya Sil pleasure having you! July 13, 2022 [22:49]Dreadton von Ship: @Kronos https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9196063/#post-10514726 [22:51]Kronos...

March 14, 2022 [00:16]Pallaith, King of the North: @Court the first order of business has been completed, as you may have noticed. I couldn’t help but notice there was talk of a potential r4r floating around. Would be silly for us not to take note of it. But since it’s coming up, seems like a...

November 18, 2022 [15:13]Dreadton von Ship: @Court The Court Examiner has wasted no time and making their first filing https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9196448/ please discuss [18:07]Dreadton von Ship: ive added my thoughts [18:21]Attempted Socialism: Sorry if it was unclear Dreadton. My...

We need to select a Chief Justice and a Bar Commissioner. I'm willing to serve as Chief Justice for a full term, but but with Pallaith returning to the bench there may be more competition for the post than last term.

During the last election I said that I was not the likeliest of candidates. I did not expect to get elected back then, as a complete newcomer. My expectation was to put my name out there and have a good showing in preparation for running the next time -- this time. Instead I got elected, and the...

I went to check how to update the rulings page, and realised that not only is the pinned post not referring to the index that our Laws page links to, but neither indices have been updated for a while. The index linked to through the Laws header was last updated June 20th 2022, with a ruling from...

I think it's a dumb situation, but it appears that the error was made and thus the law is clear: A citizen can no longer renounce their citizenship, and thus the Speaker can't remove anyone from the citizenship rolls without the citizen in question leaving, going inactive, or any of the other...

The Court Examiner has posted a R4R: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9196685/ I propose we take it. I will be willing to serve as moderating justice.

Let’s be clear: I am not the likeliest candidate. My short time residing in the region prohibits the impressive CVs on offer from the other candidates, and I can’t point to other NS Gameplay experiences that make up for it. So why do I accept Comfed’s nomination anyway? Primarily, because legal...