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In June 19, I went to The Philadelphia Courts, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. The court located in the City Hall and the courtroom number was 426. This is a civil case talked about two hours. When I went into the courtroom, the case didn’t begin. There were just four people set on the public area. One people sat right hand side and other three people sat left hand side of the room. Then I sat right hand side at public area. Then the black male sat right side began to talk with me, he said he joined in the case and it began at 2pm, but it was 2:20 now. I realized that he was plaintiff in this case; he continued to tell me this is the case’s main content talked about landlord & tenant. When I tried to hear and record more about the case content between them, he refused to talk more.

Then the judge came into the courtroom, He was a middle -aged white male, and two female recorders sat under the judge, there were no juror in the room, so I think this is a Bench trial. At that time, Plaintiff and defendant stand up and walk to the front of chair. Plaintiff and his lawyer both sat right hand side and defendant sat left hand side.

Judge began to ask about plaintiff and defendant’s name separately. As I mentioned above, Ben was plaintiff’s name. He was a contractor who represented for MJR Enterprises Company. The Defendant’s full name was Deborah Kellam, she carried her husband Troy and the third party called Carusr. The case I have heard was about Defendant Kellam didn’t pay enough amount of the rent before moving out. Although Kellam moved out, she still needed to pay the rent written on the contract. The contract ended in July. Defendant Kellam owed Plaintiff three months rent which are May, June and July. Plaintiff noticed and warned Kellam to pay the rent, but she didn’t. She deliberately owed plaintiff three months rent. As a result, Ben began to file a lawsuit to against Kellam. In addition, the contract wrote tenant need to pay 850$ per months rent for the landlord. So three months fee are 2550$ and 141.70$ late fee. Defendant Kellam totally need to afford 2641.70$ to Ben who represented for MJR Enterprises.

Also, Judge clearly asked that plaintiff file a lawsuit’s purpose. Plaintiff’s lawyer said Ben who represented for MJR Enterprises wanted Defendant to pay for the three months rent. Judge continued to ask defendant whether she agreed or disagree the result. Afterwards, defendant said: “I proved for myself, I do not have a lawyer...” She began to cry and talked something unrelated to the case, judge said that he did not want to hear about the unrelated case, at that time, we could find that defendant had some negative emotion. Judge continued asked defendant accept or reject the result or not; if she reject the result, she also had the ability to lawsuit plaintiff. At that moment, defendant accepted the result. Continually, judge asked defendant brought money or not. She answered yes. Also judge asked defendant to pay money at 4:00 PM June 15,2015.

From my point of view, I realize that plaintiff’s wants called prayer for relief; it is the meaning of what was plaintiff asking for from the defendant. In addition, plaintiff was landlord; defendant was tenant. These two had sufficient standing and the two parties were written a contract. In reference to legal skills, contract has five elements. Offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity and legality. The last elements mentioned the contract’s content must be legal, if not the contract is void. Also, Plaintiff was the offeror who offered the house to defendant, and defendant was the offeree who accepted the contact’s content. Two parties wrote about the bilateral promise. At that time, when two parties signed the contract, they must follow and promise their act in the contract. If one party breached the contact’s promise, another party can file a lawsuit.

Moreover, there were lots of interesting details when I joined into the court observation. Eventually, this was my first time to go to court, I felt a little bit nervous. After When I went there, I found that everyone could go the court and sat at the public area to heard the public case. Court is the place where felled of fair and public atmosphere; Law is the rules that wanted conduct people with in a society. In addition, I found people did not to wear formal suit when they involved in a case; Lawyers were the very important role to represent each party, they thought and spook logically, the knew about what they planned to do ,what they sought. However, I realized plaintiff and defendant collected all relevant documents and martials when they involved in a case, when each party wanted to say one word, they needed to raise their hand, if the judge agree them to talk, then they can talk. Every words in the court must be related and responded to under oath, each party can not talk some unreal and false information. And I find something interesting; judges did not need to wear the white hair - wig sheath when they began a case, but England and few countries’ judicial system still keeps the tradition when the judge began a case. I check the reason why judge need to wear the wig sheath in England, because the traditional judge and people can feel more formal and forget judges’ appearance, then judges can give more fair judgment. To sum up, the case is easy to follow and write now, I am surprised that how simple the fact of the case are, although I do not have the chance to hear the whole litigation process; I just hear about the bench trial. I still can feel the power of law.

Overall, this court observation is a significant learning chance for me, I really enjoy the case and I believe that it will be the valuable judicial proceeding’s observation in my whole life. The law is the base line of moral. I will notice myself to be a fair and good person.