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II. Judicial Standards and Principles
  
  2.4 General Principles of the Court  
  Article 33-Change of Venue  
33.1 Change of venue  
  A change of venue is when a court proceedings is planned to commence in one Court and location and is then moved, or when a court proceedings begins in one particular location and then moves to a new location.  
  There are several grounds for the granting of a change of venue, the most important being when a member requests a matter to be changed from an inferior court of an alternate society to a superior court of the Society.  
33.2 Matter before an inferior court of an alternate Society  
  A Change of Venue motion shall be automatically granted where a matter is before an inferior court of an alternate Society.  
  As the Society possesses superior law, superior procedure and superior authority, such a motion agreed it to protect the law, consistent with the law.  
  The inferior court is then obliged under all maxims of law to provide the records and information to the Superior Court of the society within five (5) days including clearing their docket of the matter.  
  The failure of the inferior court to clear their docket and/or provide the court records shall represent a fundamental contempt of the law, by both societies and all court officers of the inferior court involved in such a grave injury to the law representing serious criminal acts subject to possible substantial fines, loss of insurance and bonds and imprisonment.  
33.3 Uncooperative/disruptive defendant  
  Where a defendant is deliberately uncooperative, disruptive and seeking to threaten/intimidate and jeopardize the proceedings of the Court, the prosecutor may file for a change of venue from an open dock courtroom to the neared closed dock courtroom.  
  A closed dock courtroom means the defendant can still be brought to court, but isolated in both sound and visually offensive behaviour from the rest of the courtroom procedures without comprising their basic right to bear witness to their own court proceedings.  
33.4 Threatened witness/court suit  
  Where a court suit begins in an open public courtroom and then members of the Court, court officials and/or witnesses or jury members receive credible threats, the prosecution can move for the proceedings to be moved to a secure courtroom where proceedings are closed to the public and secure accommodation/security protection is available to the court itself and members of the court.  
33.5 Major disaster/destruction to existing court  
  Where a major disaster or sustained damage is inflicted upon the existing courtroom, the prosecution may apply for all court proceedings to move to another location with a functioning court.  
33.6 Unfair and deliberately biased location  
  A defendant and/or their legal team may apply once (only) for a change of venue if they can substantiate a claim of unfair and deliberate bias against their client in the present community in which the trial is said to take place.  
  Deliberate bias includes an openly defiant media committing contempt of court, sustained examples of angry mob behaviour out the front of the court or remand centre against the accused and/or community wide proof that is both in contempt of court and shows strong bias.  
  Unless such evidence of open defiance of the law is evident, no application of change of venue by a defendant is permitted to be accepted.  
     
     
 
 

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