Report on Courtroom Observation

Running Head: REPORT 0
REPORT ON COURTROOM
OBSERVATION
AUSTRALIA
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REPORT 1
Table of Contents
Introduction.........................................................................................................................2
Contents of the case............................................................................................................2
Technicalities in content......................................................................................................3
Observation.........................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..........................................................................................................................4
Bibliography........................................................................................................................5

REPORT 2
Introduction
A place which acts like a tribunal and is comprised up of a body of people i.e. the judges or
magistrates and deals with the civil or the criminal matters is called as court. It is very important
for the students who wants to peruse law as their career to attend the hearing of the court cases
very efficiently so to gather live information about the working of the legal procedure in practical
or while been practiced. So the main aim or the purpose behind the formation of this report is to
share my personal observation with the people at large. While proceeding through this report I
would step by step cover many points such as the contents of the given case, used technicality
within it, my personal observation regarding the legal personals and the environment of the
courtroom and then lastly will conclude the entire report by an ending note which will reflect
entire of my perspective. Observation is very essential to gain knowledge about the things
happening around us. So one must always be a good observer.
Contents of the case
It was 28th of August 2019 i.e. Wednesday, when I had a visit to the Bankstown local court for
observing a criminal case. Mohamoud Abdihashi was the defendant of the going on case
hearing and Michael Smith was the presiding officer i.e. the judge present there for hearing both
the parties i.e. plaintiff and defendant and deciding over their matters.
The defendant was charged with having committed robbery in a company, which is covered
under section 97 of the Crimes Act 1900 (Lanham et al., 2006). Where it was determined that
if a person present in company and uses a very dangerous or offensive weapon for stealing or
making an attempt for stealing something from the other person then he or she may be awarded
with the maximum imprisonment up to 20 years and other penalties could also be imposed over
him. Here the term company means commission of a crime with the help of others being teamed
up with the offender.
The nature of the case was the summary hearing which is that procedure where the summary of
an offence as well as some indictable offences are discussed (Quilter & McNamara, 2013).
Here in the hearing of the court hears the evidences of the police and also from the side of the
parties to reach a conclusion that whether the defendant are guilty or not, or whether the case
must be heard by this court only or must be passed to some other court for further jurisdiction
(Lee, 2009).
The accused here had pleaded to be not guilty of having been committed any offence. He had
that much courage to do so because he was been legally represented by the OXFORD
Lawyers. The OXFORD Lawyers are the ones who makes a devoted legal team for
representing their clients who are been facing all the types of allegation starting from the traffic
matters to the criminal offences which are very serious in nature (Kyriakakis, 2007). No case is
considered as small or big for these lawyers and they tend to attend the person immediately
from the very movement when he falls into the trouble and get exposures to the police matters