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Stay on a midnight warrant

The file arrived after the cause list had closed. Counsel isolated a single defect: the warrant recited a section that the complaint did not support. The stay was narrow, time-bound, and enough to bring the accused to court on a weekday.

This is the kind of story chambers tells because the remedy was modest and the record was clean — not because the matter was famous.