{"id":153738,"date":"2020-07-25T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/25\/star-treatment-for-depp-trial-branded-galling-by-lawyers-amid-huge-backlog\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T13:16:45","slug":"star-treatment-for-depp-trial-branded-galling-by-lawyers-amid-huge-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153738","title":{"rendered":"Star treatment for Depp trial branded \u2018galling\u2019 by lawyers amid huge backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barristers query why court time is allowed during Covid-19 when many urgent family hearings are held remotely Johnny Depp\u2019s libel trial has been described as \u201cgalling\u201d by lawyers at a time when the criminal justice system is struggling with a massive backlog, and deeply sensitive cases are being handled remotely.One barrister questioned why Depp\u2019s case had been allowed to proceed in person at the High Court in London when she was having to deal over the phone or by Skype with proceedings for a child at risk of being removed from their parents. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jul\/25\/johnny-depp-libel-trial-branded-galling-by-lawyers-amid-covid-backlog-of-half-a-million-cases\" target=\"_blank\">Star treatment for Depp trial branded \u2018galling\u2019 by lawyers amid huge backlog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barristers query why court time is allowed during Covid-19 when many urgent family hearings are held remotely Johnny Depp\u2019s libel trial has been described as \u201cgalling\u201d by lawyers at a time when the criminal justice system is struggling with a massive backlog, and deeply sensitive cases are being handled remotely.One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}