before the court

Upon taking office, Bush chose Olson to represent his administration before the court.

Teixeira apologised before the court, and said he understood that "all the responsibility and consequences fall on my shoulders alone", according to reporters inside the Boston court.

It was going to take a while, as federal litigation does, before the court was going to decide whether Arizona’s law violated the Constitution or violated federal statutes.

Barristers for Robinson said it was his "principles that have brought him before the court".

Callum O'Sullivan, 23, from Ely, appeared before the court but was not arraigned.