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 Somewhere around the entrance to the courthouse there <span class="noglossary">will</span> be a bulletin board with lists of all the hearings that are going on that day and which courtroom each hearing is in. Find your courtroom, and get there early.
-The clerk <span class="noglossary">will</span> open the courtroom about 10 or 15 minutes before the court day starts. Enter the courtroom and walk to to where the clerk sits. Tell the clerk who you are. The clerk <span class="noglossary">will</span> find your file on the day's list and <span class="noglossary">will</span> ask you how long you expect the hearing to take.
+The clerk <span class="noglossary">will</span> open the courtroom about 10 or 15 minutes before the court day starts. Enter the courtroom and walk to where the clerk sits. Tell the clerk who you are. The clerk <span class="noglossary">will</span> find your file on the day's list and <span class="noglossary">will</span> ask you how long you expect the hearing to take.
 After you've checked in, take a seat in the gallery. Lawyers <span class="noglossary">will</span> sit in the row of chairs just beyond the gallery, past the bar, although in some busy courtrooms like the chambers courtrooms in Vancouver and New Westminster, all of the seating is considered past the bar. In a case like that, where there is no obvious gallery, sit wherever you find a seat.