the high court has 40 courtrooms.
the high court has 40 courtrooms.
how many courtrooms does the high court have?
40
the completed design resulted in a curving structure standing five stories tall with of space. the bottom two floors are covered in glass and house offices, while the top three floors are covered in ribbons of steel and primarily house courtrooms. three pavilions rise from the main structure to create these upper floors where the six courtrooms are located. each of the top three floors have two courtrooms; two for the judges of federal district court, two for magistrate judges of the court, and two for the bankruptcy court, with these courtrooms spread out amongst the pavilions; two per pavilion and all on the third floor. chambers for the judges are located above the courtrooms and include a seventh chamber for a visiting judge. on the same level as the judge's chambers are two law libraries for the court. the three floors featuring the courtrooms are joined to the rest of the building via the tall atrium. located on the second floor is the jury assembly room, which when not in use by the court is used as exhibit and meeting space.
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the walls are often partially or completely wood-paneled. this is a matter of style and tradition, but some jurisdictions have elected to construct courtrooms with a more "modern" appearance. some courtroom settings are little more than a closed circuit television camera transmitting the proceedings to a correctional facility elsewhere in order to protect the court from violent defendants who view the proceedings on television within a jail conference room and are allowed duplex communications with the judge and other officers of the court. many courtrooms are equipped with a speaker system where the judge can toggle a switch to generate white noise during sidebar conversations with the attorneys so that the jury and spectators cannot hear what is being discussed off-record.
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