OK yeah so my job right
As some of you may know, I work in a criminal court for a living. It can mostly be boring as shit and it isn't particularly stimulating at the best of times. Its a living though and it MOSTLY does what I ask of it. I don't really have room to complain about it however too much seeing as finding decent work given the current nationwide dearth of adequate paying jobs, so I'm just grateful for having what I have.
ANYWAY
This week I've been learning the whole Court Clerking side of the job. For anyone unbeknownst as to what this is, its basically being the Judge's liason in court to EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE, the prosecutors and defence in the case, the Probation service, the Listings Officers who list the trials and other hearings, the Ushers, the Jurors, EVERYONE. You have to organise everyone involved in a case on the day and log each and every word of relevance said in court, draw up all the orders, get cases called on, get cases listed, take verdicts from the jurors, stand up in a court room full of people and address all every person in there, put the charges to defendants, even if they're drunk, etc etc etc GOD THERES TOO MUCH TO DO
However, its been so much fun to do it all. Its been challenging but not to an unhealthy holy shit I cannot deal with this type of way. People thought I would be nervous about standing up in front of everyone in court and talking away but I got over those kinds of fears about public speaking a while back thankfully. I almost relish it. Plus its cool to have a job where I get to wear a suit and a gown and look baller as fuck on the odd occasion by wearing a wig into court (we only have to do that when we have a high-ranking High Court judge in so I haven't had a chance to wear it in open court just yet).
Its interesting too. I got to sit on and help organise a trial this week of some flasher who'd been getting his John Thomas out in public and wafting it around (we have a high calibre class of criminals where we live) as well as putting charges to someone who'd raped both his sisters when he was in his teens over 30 years ago. Its interesting in a galling and sobering sort of way. You realise from working in the court that these types of crimes aren't exactly a one-in-a-million thing; they happen a LOT. And to think these are just the guys we catch. Chilling. You wonder so much just how these people's thought processes actually work and why they lack the inhibitors stopping them from doing these kinds of awful, risible things to the people they're supposed to love and care about. Two and half years of being there and I still really cant think of how some of the people who come into us do the things they do. Its really impossible to fathom a lot of the time.
SO YEAH, this is one of the million things I have to do in my job, as well as open up cases, deal with police, deal with defendants, deal with jurors, deal with fellow stressed out colleagues. I don't know particularly who're the most awkward to deal with. But it certainly has its intriguing moments and in the end, I'm glad I have it.
OH YEAH
ANYWAY
This week I've been learning the whole Court Clerking side of the job. For anyone unbeknownst as to what this is, its basically being the Judge's liason in court to EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE, the prosecutors and defence in the case, the Probation service, the Listings Officers who list the trials and other hearings, the Ushers, the Jurors, EVERYONE. You have to organise everyone involved in a case on the day and log each and every word of relevance said in court, draw up all the orders, get cases called on, get cases listed, take verdicts from the jurors, stand up in a court room full of people and address all every person in there, put the charges to defendants, even if they're drunk, etc etc etc GOD THERES TOO MUCH TO DO
However, its been so much fun to do it all. Its been challenging but not to an unhealthy holy shit I cannot deal with this type of way. People thought I would be nervous about standing up in front of everyone in court and talking away but I got over those kinds of fears about public speaking a while back thankfully. I almost relish it. Plus its cool to have a job where I get to wear a suit and a gown and look baller as fuck on the odd occasion by wearing a wig into court (we only have to do that when we have a high-ranking High Court judge in so I haven't had a chance to wear it in open court just yet).
Its interesting too. I got to sit on and help organise a trial this week of some flasher who'd been getting his John Thomas out in public and wafting it around (we have a high calibre class of criminals where we live) as well as putting charges to someone who'd raped both his sisters when he was in his teens over 30 years ago. Its interesting in a galling and sobering sort of way. You realise from working in the court that these types of crimes aren't exactly a one-in-a-million thing; they happen a LOT. And to think these are just the guys we catch. Chilling. You wonder so much just how these people's thought processes actually work and why they lack the inhibitors stopping them from doing these kinds of awful, risible things to the people they're supposed to love and care about. Two and half years of being there and I still really cant think of how some of the people who come into us do the things they do. Its really impossible to fathom a lot of the time.
SO YEAH, this is one of the million things I have to do in my job, as well as open up cases, deal with police, deal with defendants, deal with jurors, deal with fellow stressed out colleagues. I don't know particularly who're the most awkward to deal with. But it certainly has its intriguing moments and in the end, I'm glad I have it.
OH YEAH