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Home NEWS UK Crime My Profile Offers Sitemap From The Times May 18, 2007 Judge halts terror trial to ask: what’s a website? Frances Gibb, Legal Editor A judge overseeing the trial of three alleged Muslim “cyber-terrorists” has been given a basic lesson in the internet – after admitting that he did not know what a “website” was.
Mr Justice Peter Openshaw, who is conducting the trial at Woolwich Crown Court, stunned prosecutors when he said: “The trouble is I don’t understand the language.
The professor then explained the terms “dial-up” and “broad-band”, adding: “It is how fast you can communicate.” .
As a user types in a domain name the browser first of all goes to a server and that server tells it what the actual IP address of that domain name is.” .
All judges are now provided with computers and many of them use them extensively, including a judicial “intranet” or chat forum.
But one or two remain wedded to the tried and trusted methods of writing up their notes and judgments by hand.
Australia Network - News - Former Liberian president faces war crime trial - Text Only
The former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, goes on trial in the Hague later today.
He faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Charles Taylor is the first African head of state to go on trial before an international court..
The trial was moved from Freetown for security reasons..
Charles Taylor denies helping to arm and train Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels in exchange for diamonds during the civil conflict in the 1990s.
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