Personnel, courts

Court personnel include the bench, that is judges or magistrates counsel for either side (see paragraph 1.8.4) and the court usher appointed to keep silence and order in court, and to attend upon the judge. All judges are... 

Main elements of procedure in such courts identity of court personnel. 

The following case histories illustrate some of the issues faced by PCP abusers, law enforcement personnel, and the courts. 

It is not uncommon for civil actions to be brought against law enforcement personnel who have come into contact with individuals under the influence of PCP. Helen A. Burns vs. City and County of Honolulu et al. represents an issue that is being brought before the courts with increasing frequency. 

The appointments went through this court, all right. But there are a hundred names on the list of defense personnel approved by the court. I didn t have the list with me, and Alt has never been in court. How did I know The French administrator was plenty burned up at Alt for keeping his second job a secret. I covered it all very carefully in the memorandum to the court. There s a copy on your desk."... 

This defendant had penned a note on one of his complaints that the government wasn t co-operating. "French personnel going on leave to furnish guarantors private agreement with slave traders " His counsel had told the court that the defendant used the term "slave traders" in "a more or less jocular form." Didn t the court see the point It was just a joke. The defendant added "To what extent such practices were customary, I cannot tell you today. At any rate, if the people maintain mat they did not come quite voluntarily, then in my way of expression, perhaps a joke like that could be understood."... 

The Supreme Court has recognized a constitutional right to bodily integrity that includes the right of a person to make voluntary and informed decisions about medical treatment." The government s concept of compassionate coercion appears to turn upside-down the individual s right to informed consent. All fifty states have laws that protect informed consent. These laws require that before performing medical procedures or treatments, medical personnel must make certain disclosures to patients and obtain the patient s consent." ... 

Reports provided by forensic toxicology personnel and expert consultants may ultimately be introduced as evidence in a court of law. These reporting individuals may be asked to interpret and substantiate their findings and any associated opinions. It is therefore necessary that the forensic toxicologist be thoroughly knowledgeable or familiar with legal practices and be professionally comfortable in a courtroom environment. 

In response to these escalating compliance demands, several companies, especially in the blood bank and fractionated plasma product industry, have either gone out of business or signed consent decrees of permanent injunction that eifectively allow FDA to control and oversee the function and improvement of the company. Specific plans, time lines, and personnel issues must be filed with, accepted, and overseen by FDA and supervised by the federal courts. Violations of the negotiated (i. e., dictated by FDA) conditions constitute a contempt of court with increasingly serious penalties. With not only the company but also the chief executive officers being named as defendants in the case, appropriate attention is paid to the plan at all levels of the company. ... 

There are three major subdivisions of the process of physical evidence evaluation—collection, laboratory evaluation, and court presentation of results and their significance. How should personnel be trained for each of these functions It need hardly be pointed out that the crime investigator should be well aware of which types of evidence are useful for investigative purposes, what evidence the local, regional, or federal... 

There are some very definite limitations on the availability of certain antitrust information to the public. The division cannot disclose the identity of or information about any complainant. Likewise, it cannot make public any information it may use in an antitrust action until that information has been admitted to the public record of the trial. Even then, the court may keep such information secret by admitting it under seal. In much the same manner, certain confidential information necessary to the division in negotiating consent decrees may be supplied by each of the companies involved with the understanding that it will be seen and used only by the consent-decree personnel of the division, and later returned to the company or companies involved. Information furnished the division on a voluntary basis during the preliminary stages of an antitrust investigation or case may also be held on a confidential basis under some circumstances,... 

Thompson, D. E., Thompson, T. A. (1982). Court standards Iot job analysis in test validatioiL Personnel Psychology, 35, 865-874. 

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