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Title
1. This shall be titled the Judicial Offices Amendment Act

Amendments
2. Section 3.3 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

3.3 A Court can return a NOT GUILTY, a GUILTY or a RECOMMENDATION verdict.

• NOT GUILTY - The Court finds the defendant innocent of his/her charge or specific charges, if more than one is brought.
• GUILTY - The Court finds the defendant guilty of his/her charge or specific charges, if more than one is brought. The punishments for a GUILTY verdict are to be drawn from the Code of Criminal Laws.
  
  • RECOMMENDATION - The Court finds the defendant either innocent or guilty but recommends special provisions be made that fall outside of the remit of the Code of Criminal Law. It is up to the Monarch to decide whether to implement these recommendations. A case can therefore have an INNOCENT - RECOMMENDATION verdict and a GUILTY - RECOMMENDATION verdict.

3. Section 4.1 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows

4.1 When a Court is formed and a case brought before it, the case is to be named as follows:

• [CASE NUMBER][PLAINTIFF NAME]v[DEFENDANT NAME]-[CHIEF JUSTICE][DATE]

The public record kept by the court must then outline the name and charge of the defendant, the name of the Chief Justice, the name of the Plaintiff and the names of the Associate Judges. This record shall be updated to list witnesses called and by whom.

4. Section 4.2 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

4.2 Only the Court Officials (Chief Justice and the Associate Judges), the defendant and any witness called may speak within the court and be kept on the record. Uninvolved citizens may observe the proceedings but cannot comment within the court.

5. Section 4.3 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

4.3 During the proceedings, a Court Official who calls a witness must pose their questions at the time they summon that witness. A witness then has one moment to provide their responses to the questions put to them. At any time, a Court Official may pose a question(s) for the defendant so long as no other questions for the defendant are unanswered and so long as no witness has questions left to answer.

5. Section 4.4 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

4.4 Once the Court feels it has enough evidence to reach a verdict, the Chief Justice must publicly announce that the Officials are withdrawing to debate their verdict. From this point on, no-one is allowed to comment within the court until the Chief Justice announces a verdict.

6. Section 4.5 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

4.5 4.6 If the Chief Justice and his Associate Judges feel more than 3 witnesses are required per day, they may vote to raise the limit for the duration of a specific court case.

7. Section 5.1 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

5.1 The Monarch has the Right of Recall. If after a one week period has passed since a verdict was publicly announced the Monarch wishes for a retrial, he/she may summon a new Court to hear the case again. 

8. Section 5.2 of the Judicial Offices Act shall be amended to read as follows:

5.2 A defendant, if found guilty, may Appeal his/her case after 2 weeks have passed since a verdict was announced. To do so, a defendant must file a request to Monarch allow an appeal.

This basically fixes a few things that caused the JoA to be illegal, and changes the wording on a few things.