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If the defendent is brought into custody, the court may set bail and impose travel restrictions etc., or simply hold the defendent in detention until the end of the trial if the defendant is a flight risk or is in danger of being harmed or of harming others should they be released. The oral trial will involve witness testimonies and oral arguments. In different types of cases, a certain amount of judges are required to be there, but it cannot be less than half of available judges. The judges must vote by a simple majority or a two thirds majority, whichever is higher. In some cases, a unanimous agreement is required. Dissenting or minority opinions must be noted and all trials are public.
If the defendent is brought into custody, the court may set bail and impose travel restrictions etc., or simply hold the defendent in detention until the end of the trial if the defendant is a flight risk or is in danger of being harmed or of harming others should they be released. The oral trial will involve witness testimonies and oral arguments. In different types of cases, a certain amount of judges are required to be there, but it cannot be less than half of available judges. The judges must vote by a simple majority or a two thirds majority, whichever is higher. In some cases, a unanimous agreement is required. Dissenting or minority opinions must be noted and all trials are public.


Should the parties to the case be unsatisfied with the outcome, they may request an appeal. Tn the event that an adverse ruling is made against a member state, that member state may request an interdict on any action that the UNAC might take in response, such as suspension or termination of membership, economic sanctions, blockade or invasion etc., while it seeks an appeal on a ccase. TTherea re no preliminary processes to appealing a case. The Court Sheriff will place the case on the roster according to time constraints. On appeal, the parties will solely rely on whether there were procedural or substantive errors in the judgment that was made. The appeals bench may consist of the same justices as before, but not less. They cannot retry the case or review old evidence except in exceptional circumstances where new evidence has emerged which was material to the case, but these situations are untested.
Should the parties to the case be unsatisfied with the outcome, they may request an appeal. In the event that an adverse ruling is made against a member state, that member state may request an interdict on any action that the UNAC might take in response, such as suspension or termination of membership, economic sanctions, blockade or invasion etc., while it seeks an appeal on its case. There are no preliminary processes to appealing a case. The Court Sheriff will place the case on the roster according to time constraints. On appeal, the parties will solely rely on whether there were procedural or substantive errors in the judgment that was made. The appeals bench may consist of the same justices as before, but not less. They cannot retry the case or review old evidence except in exceptional circumstances where new evidence has emerged which was material to the case, but these situations are untested.

Some cases do not follow this procedure. Legal advisory cases require an application to the Court Sheriff. The Court Sheriff will invite anyone to come forward to contribute to the case. In many ways the matter follows many of the protocols of a normal trial. The major difference is that no arguments with rebuttal are presented and the justices are free to make their own investigations independent of anything presented by the parties or contributors. Legal advisory cases cannot be appealed. An entirely new case must be brought up to challenge a previous ruling in which case any ruling that goes against previous advise supplants it.

There are interdictions as well. An interdiction is a situation in which a complainant goes to the court to demand that a certain action be stopped before occurring. This can include the seizure of property by a third party etc. The court will issue an interdict to temporarily suspend the enactment of the action until the dispute is resolved within or out of trial. Interdicts have a finite period and may require renewal (which the court is not obligated to grant). Moreover, where a statutory body of the UNAC has legitimate cause to undertake an action, an interdiction is highly unlikely to be granted and where it is granted, will most likely be restricted to reducing the intensity or scope of the action (e.g., if the Auroran Security Agency conducts a raid).
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