Her lawyers and a prosecutor met with the judge in chambers for more than an hour, and the conference was continuing.

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Cases involving minor crimes are now argued orally in front of a judge, instead of the judge reading mounds of papers alone in chambers.

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But his appearance in Beijing now rests on a ruling by a judge in London's High Court on Wednesday as Chambers bids to overturn a British Olympic Association bye law, which bans athletes with a doping conviction from competing at the Games.

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The court, which very early in the litigation was already in possession of the contested interview materials (having been provided them by the BC legal team for private in-chambers review by the district court judge), had no incentive whatsoever to grant the scholars any opportunity to engage in such a searching inquiry.

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