And the scene is different in this setting, in this historic chamber with the Chief Justice presiding and senators sitting as jurors.

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This would have to occur -- no matter how long it took -- on the floor of the Senate, with the chief judge presiding.

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The chief justice presiding over the court strongly criticised the police.

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Presiding judge Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, suggested that the shot would have had to be "extraordinarily accurate".

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The Daycare Trust's chief executive, Anand Shukla, said councils were "failing families by presiding over a continuing shortage of high quality, affordable childcare" but said that was "no doubt linked to the tight financial squeeze they find themselves in".

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Scottish National Party chief whip Bruce Crawford raised the matter in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, asking Deputy Presiding Officer Murray Tosh if the executive was making a statement to Holyrood later this week.

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