Oli don't you see court proceedings as something akin to Kabuki theater? I mean basically the lawyers are the writera, directors, producers and actors. The witnesses are performers, and they tend to ad lib their way into trouble or out of it in totally unpreictable ways no matter how well prepared they are. The judge is a referee/parental figure. And all the time the "performance" is governed by very rigid rules by which the show goes on... rules of evidence, rules of procedure, standing up at the right time, asking permission to apprach the witness, etc.