Judge Rinder
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| Genre | Court show |
| Presented by | Robert Rinder |
| Starring | Michelle Hassan |
| Voices of | Charles Foster |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 280 |
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| Location(s) | The Studios, MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | ITV Studios |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 1080i 16:9 (HDTV) |
| Original release | 11 August 2014 – present |
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| Related shows |
Judge Judy Judge Rinder's Crime Stories |
Judge Rinder is a British court show that has aired daily on ITV since 11 August 2014. It centres around criminal barrister Robert Rinder as the judge, who oversees a variety of civil cases, such as disputes over basic consumer issues, business/personal/neighbourhood disputes, and allegations of negligence.
Like other court shows, Judge Rinder acts as an arbitrator in a form of binding arbitration, not as an actual judge. In 2014 Rinder, who is a barrister at 2 Hare Court Chambers in London, told Legal Cheek that he was "adamant that we had to make it clear to viewers that I am in fact a practising criminal barrister and not a civil law judge." Participants are paid by the production company, which also pays out any damages awarded as a game-show prize, rather than taking them from the loser (hence, both sides emerge financially better off than they would from using a real court). Rinder claims that unlike other TV arbitrators such as Judge Judy who make judgements based on emotion, he makes his purely in accordance with real UK law, and hence the show is educational about real legal principles.
The hearings are conducted in a studio mock-up of a small claims courtroom. However, real English courts do not feature flags or gavels. The robes worn by Rinder are regular barristers' robes, minus wig, and resemble judicial robes worn by Deputy High Court judges. Part time judges in the Crown Court (called Recorders) also wear the same robes with wig. In reality, most small claim trials in England and Wales are conducted in District Judges' Chambers, with the parties seated throughout and no robes being worn at all.
The show shares the same format as other television court shows, such as Judge Judy and Judge Mathis. When filmed, each case takes around an hour or so to film and is thus subsequently edited down so that multiple cases (usually two or three) can be fitted into the given timeslot.
The claimant and defendant enter the courtroom separately, while announcer Charles Foster announces their names (unlike Judge Judy, where full names are used, they are only identified by first names), along with details of the case, and take their places at their respective benches: the claimant on the left, and the defendant on the right, from Judge Rinder's viewpoint; for the audience, it is vice versa. Rinder then asks the claimant and defendant to confirm their names, and the case proceeds.
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