TY - CHAP
T1 - Judicial Humour and Inter-Professional Relations in the Courtroom
AU - Roach Anleu, Sharyn
AU - Mack, Kathy
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Conventional understandings of the judicial role emphasise impersonality, leaving little space for humour. However, the courtroom is a workplace where different professions come together, each highly dependent on the other. Solicitors, barristers and police prosecutors (in lower courts) provide information or undertake tasks necessary for judicial decision-making. Although judicial officers in both higher and lower courts have considerable formal legal authority, their direct supervisory power over the out-of-court work of these other professionals is limited. This observational study of Australian lower courts finds that one strategy magistrates adopt to bridge this gap is humour. A magistrate’s practical use of humour can help judicial officers meet organisational challenges such as time management, while the normative use of humour delineates inter-professional roles and obligations.
AB - Conventional understandings of the judicial role emphasise impersonality, leaving little space for humour. However, the courtroom is a workplace where different professions come together, each highly dependent on the other. Solicitors, barristers and police prosecutors (in lower courts) provide information or undertake tasks necessary for judicial decision-making. Although judicial officers in both higher and lower courts have considerable formal legal authority, their direct supervisory power over the out-of-court work of these other professionals is limited. This observational study of Australian lower courts finds that one strategy magistrates adopt to bridge this gap is humour. A magistrate’s practical use of humour can help judicial officers meet organisational challenges such as time management, while the normative use of humour delineates inter-professional roles and obligations.
KW - Courts
KW - courtroom workgroup
KW - Judges
KW - judicial humour
KW - humour and professions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063812097&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP0210306
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP0665198
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP1096888
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP150103663
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-76738-3_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-76738-3_5
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319767376
SP - 141
EP - 178
BT - Judges, Judging and Humour
A2 - Milner Davis , Jessica
A2 - Roach Anleu, Sharyn
PB - Palgrave
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -