The architects have clearly thought of the church as a royal court chamber and for this reason the basic construction is reminiscent of a basilica.

Five other people, mostly reporters covering the trial, were ordered to meet with Judge Ito in court chambers on Thursday morning.

The sound echoed dully back from the forbidding stone walls of the court chamber.

The only way to reach the court chambers from anywhere else on Golgotha was by underground trains controlled directly by palace computers.

In the court chamber, there are two rows of portraits high along the walls, mostly of 20th-century judges.

A young girl in a pink dress and ponytails shuffled nervously outside a therapy room that has been converted to court chambers.

He was still darkly furious when the van arrived at the court chambers.

A radical group among them abducted Judge Bradley from his court chamber and threatened to hang him in the front of the courthouse.

By contrast with this heavily populated upper table the court chamber itself seemed under-populated.

Birkenhead's magistrates' court chambers are located in a separate building of the same design to the rear.