Judge Rinder is a British court show that is aired mainly on weekdays on ITV since it started on 11 August 2014. It centres on criminal barrister Robert Rinder as the judge, who oversees a variety of civil cases, such as disputes over basic consumer issues, business/personal/neighbourhood disputes, and allegations of negligence.
Like other court shows, Judge Rinder acts as an arbitrator in a form of binding arbitration, not as an actual judge. In 2014 Rinder, who is a barrister at 2 Hare Court Chambers in London, told Legal Cheek that he was "adamant that we had to make it clear to viewers that I am in fact a practising criminal barrister and not a civil law judge." Participants are paid by the production company, which also pays out any damages awarded as a game-show prize, rather than taking them from the loser (hence, both sides emerge financially better off than they would from using a real court). Rinder claims that unlike other TV arbitrators such as Judge Judy who make judgements based on emotion, he makes his purely in accordance with real UK law, and hence the show is educational about real legal principles.
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Show structure
The hearings are conducted in a studio mock-up of a small claims courtroom. However, real UK courts do not feature flags and gavels are only used in Scottish High Courts. The robes worn by Rinder are regular barristers' robes, minus wig, and resemble judicial robes worn by Deputy High Court judges. Part time judges in the Crown Court (called Recorders) also wear the same robes with wig. In reality, most small claim trials in England and Wales are conducted in District Judges' Chambers, with the parties seated throughout and no robes being worn at all.
The show shares the same format as other television court shows, such as Judge Judy and Judge Mathis. When filmed, each case takes around an hour or so to film and is thus subsequently edited down so that multiple cases (usually two or three) can be fitted into the given timeslot.
The claimant and defendant enter the courtroom separately, while announcer Charles Foster announces their names (unlike Judge Judy, where full names are used, they are only identified by first names), along with details of the case, and take their places at their respective benches: the claimant on the left, and the defendant on the right, from Judge Rinder's viewpoint; for the audience, it is vice versa. Rinder then asks the claimant and defendant to confirm their names, and the case proceeds.
Rinder does not allow misconduct or disrespect in the courtroom, often firmly reprimanding litigants with what has become the show's virtual catchphrase, "Talking!" He allows the litigants three chances -- or "strikes", as he calls them. If a litigant interrupts or acts out three times in the courtroom, they are escorted out by the court usher, a tall, well-built man named Ian, and the case continues in their absence.
The bailiff of the show is Michelle Hassan, who passes items of evidence (photographs, receipts, copies of text messages etc.) between the litigants and Judge Rinder during proceedings, which can be displayed on a large video screen in the courtroom (with certain identifying information electronically blurred) when required. Michelle also brings a box of tissues or a glass of water to any litigant who should become distressed during the case, as well as escorting any additional witnesses into the courtroom, who give their evidence standing in a dock on the same side of the room where she stands, and out of the courtroom again afterwards.
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References
External links
- Judge Rinder on IMDb
- Judge Rinder at Biogs.com
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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