There is NOTHING in current law that states I must appoint councel to fit a set criteria for a few unpatient (sic) people.
Impatient? I believe the court has been more than patient with you. You have received far more patient treatment here than would be the case in a number of other regions.
There is also nothing that states that the court must arrange its proceedings around the conditions set by a defendant. As far as I am aware the court has already at least once set a date and time for this hearing. I would like to know
from a court official why this hearing did not take place as scheduled.
I believe that the court has bent over backwards to accommodate you, Govindia, and it is now time for people to realise that the court is in charge.
You are NOT the court, Flem.
Where have I suggested that I am? If I was the court, this hearing would have finished by now.
I am innocent until PROVEN guilty, and as such, I have a right to trial, which I have requested, and I have councel (sic) ready.
Also, I have not suggested that you are not innocent until proven guilty. I do not know where you have got that from. What I have suggested is that you are being (deliberately?) obstructive. The court stated way back that your trial would be on IRC. Rather than work to that, you have just sat back and whined about it.
In fact, what many people may have forgotten was that an IRC trial was first requested by
your (then) defence team. I quote from the original court docket:
As per the established procedures I expect a trial to be opened as promptly as possible or one scheduled for something like IRC.
Just because you changed your defence team and appointed counsel who cannot access IRC, why should the court then shift to accommodate that? What if, once a trial was set for the forum, you appointed new members of your team who were banned from this forum? Would the court then have to move again to accommodate you?
If that is so, then a thought has just occurred to me. I suggest you appoint my father Jim to your team. He does not own a computer, and is housebound and does not have access to an internet cafe. But he writes a good letter, and I am sure he would be willing to conduct your defence by snail mail. By the argument already used by you, it would be grossly unfair of the court not to accommodate you by conducting the trial by letter.
Absurd? So is you appointing a defence team that cannot access the medium your counsel recommended for the trial, and then whining as if it is the court's fault.
Like many Taijituans, I am fed up with this. Just hold the bloody trial. Hold it on IRC, over the course of one evening. Make a judgement, and let us move on.