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Tribunals
Tribunals much like Low council meetings serve the purpose of empowering the LC to make decisions regarding the fate of Legal matters, most often for individual colonists or at times their factions' activities in the upper level as a whole. Tribunals should proceed in an orderly fashion, conveying all facts/evidence for or against the matter and then resulting in a succinct decision.
- They may be called at any point by either the Premier (as part of a legal review of an existing case), Warrant Officer, or Low Council simple majority. After a Tribunal has been called by one of the above parties, the Low Council shall convene in its entirety within roughly 30 minutes and shall typically require at least three councilors.
The Process
After the Council has convened they should hear all relevant facts, laid out by the Warrant Officer or the one most familiar with the matter. Following this, all relevant evidence (testimonies, physical evidence, substantiated histories such as colonist records) should be reviewed and a discussion held as to the merit of the information and as to whether or not such evidence represents a sizable enough body of evidence to ensure certainty beyond a ‘reasonable doubt’.
While the Council is typically allowed to vote however they wish, they should keep this in mind as decisions with insubstantial evidence will likely be struck down on review.
- In the event that Capital Crimes are at issue, the tribunal should ideally include a Premier for an overview, though any one councilor may be assigned to this position. The position of Tribunal Mediator may additionally be filled simply to ensure decorum and guide proceedings in a swift fashion to prevent extensively long cases.
- The mediator will be empowered to maintain decorum through brief pauses in proceedings, calling to move on from a topic of discussion that doesn’t appear to go anywhere or in the absolute worst case striking members from the tribunal for the sake of proceeding, with the post-tribunal fax noting if such an extreme penalty was levied.
- If deemed appropriate by the Lower Council, an AI may act in the role of a bipartisan mediator between the council and the accused.
Conviction
Following the cessation of discussions the Tribunal shall vote on an outcome. This typically proceeds as a vote of ‘guilty/not guilty’, requiring only a simple majority to pass or fail. This should be followed by a decision of punishment, which may be by discussion or by vote.
- Regardless of the outcome, An LC-001-TD document '[found here]' should be filled out, signed by all members present at the tribunal, stamped and faxed to the High Council for cataloging.
If the accused is decided by the Low Council to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt they may then proceed with sentencing. While the council is granted wide latitude in determining punishment they must still abide by a few basic rules;
- Primly, Capital punishments (Interment, Exile, Execution) may only be doled out under the circumstances described below and require a unanimous vote.
- ‘Unusual’ Punishments (those not detailed in Colony Law) should be detailed clearly in the post-tribunal fax.
Considerations-Capital Punishment
- Unlike most forms of punishment, they must be decided upon unanimously, and as a result may not be vetoed. Additionally, following a successful vote for capital punishment, a fax must be sent immediately.
- In the event of Exile/Execution a response must be received before punishment can proceed. Interment may proceed as normal given that it shall consist only of HuT until the accused is transferred either to the Marshals lower-precinct or a Mental Health facility.
Considerations-The Rights of the Accused
- Although the accused are not required by default to be present, nor represented — the low council may decide to allow them to be present and if they have elected an individual to advocate for them the council must allow the advocate to be present for the sake of encouraging impartiality.
- Representatives of the accused shall be held to the very same standards of decorum as the Low council and failure to abide may result in their ejection/sanctioning.
Recourse
Should the accused, their representative, or councilor appeal the decision of the Tribunal they may send in a High Council communication fax to the Provost Marshal immediately following the cessation of the Tribunal.
- Appeals shall not typically be valid for executions or exile, but may be for interment and other forms of punishment. Depending on the severity of the penalty levied, the low council is encouraged to allow time for the appeal to reach the Provost, however, they are not required to.
Council Meetings & Edicts
Council Meetings are extended discussions, either in person or over radio communications regarding matters which may require collective decision-making of the council. Therefore, it is the primary means by which the low council may make decisions and alter colony procedures during the course of a shift.
Council Edicts are succinctly the result of such discussions; votes requiring a simple majority to pass/fail, which allow the Lower Council to sway colony policy and make decisions that carry the weight of the law.
Overview
- Meetings: Council meetings may be called by any one member of the Low Council(including the Premier) at their discretion. Such meetings should be called only to discuss particular topics, issues, or matters related to the colony and should generally be held in whichever form is most immediately convenient.
- Meetings regarding the discussion of particularly sensitive or important topics should only be held in person with ALL councilors present, while less important matters may be left to radio-comms discussions with members missing, out of comms range, etc.
- Any meetings that will require a vote on a matter should ideally include all currently on-shift councilors, particularly for important matters.
- Edicts: Edicts are the result of council votes. These ‘rulings’ carry the full power of law and may be enacted for any number of reasons; Adjusting colony procedure for a given shift, Law, or making important decisions about how the colony shall proceed in a given matter.
- It is notable that while Edicts grant the council wide-ranging powers, they are not without limit— the High Council still retains complete authority in their respective jurisdictions and while edicts may countermand any one factions authority at a time, they may be struck down by the High council as well.
- During the course of a Low Council vote, ALL councilors must vote— refusal to vote, abstaining, etc, shall result in immediate dismissal with a fax sent to the respective High Councilor.
Among the above-listed powers there are a handful of matters that must also be considered. As made clear in other sections of colony procedure;
- The Premier may veto any and all edicts that the Low Council enacts or attempts to enact with the caveat that a unanimous vote of 3 or more Councilors may overrule their veto.
- Any and all edicts the Low Council passes must be adhered to by all Colonists and Councilors both. Any disagreements with Edicts may be appealed to Provost Marshal Kilmeade but MUST be followed until such a time as the edict is struck down.
