Instead, the might-have-been prime minister and head judge became simply a member of the great and the good.
The head judge slowly reads out the scores as spectators run for cover.
Head judge Len Goodman said having to choose between them was "terrible".
He faces charges including sedition and unlawful publication of a conversation that led to the resignation of the head judge of a war crimes tribunal.
The Lords overturned a judgment by Thomas Bingham, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, sitting as head of a three-judge panel in Britain's High Court.
In a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis asks for "immediate discussions so that by the end of the day we are in a position to agree the appointment of the judge" to head one of the independent inquiries into the scandal.
Until a few days ago, the head of the court system was Judge Calvin Johnson.
With a nod of his head, Mr Bemba acknowledged the judge's welcome to him, and through his lawyer, he proceeded to plead not guilty to all five charges against him.
At 10 years on, perhaps for the first time we have just enough hindsight on the event to be able to judge it with a cool head.
For example, in 2001 Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon agreed to become honorary head of a group promoting the ICC.
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Ben Jankowski, group head, global media at MasterCard and an Effies judge who was surveyed, said new media metrics require evolved thinking.
Justice Goldstone, the head of the Fact Finding Mission and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court, is also a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
They claimed the seigneur is the "effective head of state" and the seneschal "the sole judge".
Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show.
The President of Uganda appointed a well-respected judge of the High Court of Uganda to head a Commission of Inquiry to conduct and independent investigation into the disappearance of the two men.
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Lawyers for Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam head to court Tuesday afternoon to persuade a federal district court judge in New York to suppress evidence from government wiretaps that led to criminal insider trading charges against the hedge fund manager.
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The letters allow the FBI to get data on phone, financial and electronic records without the approval of a judge or grand jury, as long as the head of an FBI field office certifies that the records would be relevant to a counterterrorism investigation.
All this assumes the judge would recognize computer innovation if it fell on his head.
Even Judge Jackson openly chuckled, then smiled and shook his head.
Leonard Rubin, head of intellectual property for Gordon and Glickson in Chicago, said that Judge Patel's request to distinguish between the copyrighted titles and those not owned by the music labels traditionally holds a fair amount of merit in similar types of cases.
After the judge read the verdict to a hushed court, Knox buried her head in her lawyer's chest and sobbed.
Council of State president and judge Panagiotis Pikrammenos has been sworn in as interim prime minister to head a government until the elections next month.
The attack ended, said the judge, when Telford thrust a samurai sword into James Kerr's head and neck.
Many thought it was really because the judge might complicate Musharraf's plans to be elected president while remaining head of the army.
In another video, the judge appears to be engrossed in his mobile phone and sitting with his head drooping on his chest.
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On Jersey, for instance, the Bailiff is both Jersey's chief judge, the speaker of its parliament and, in effect, its head of state.
Michael Cardozo, head of the city's Law Department, said city lawyers disagree with the judge's ruling and her assertion that there are "systematic flaws" in the program.
The head of Cuba's parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, told the Associated Press the federal judge in Texas had prevented jurors from seeing evidence that would have convinced them of his guilt.
Sadoon Janabi, who represented Awad Hamad Bandar, the former chief judge of Hussein's Revolutionary Court, was kidnapped and fatally shot in the head October 20, a day after the trial began.
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