Wimbledon Mags today:

First case is a telephone hearing for a robbery matter to be sent straight to crown court, the defendant identifies himself over the phone and a date is set.

Second is an assault for a fight with a bouncer at a nightclub in 2017, the man appears from Plumstead police station where he's being held. He's unrepresented. English is not his first language, the charges and details need to be repeated again and again.

A person off screen (probably aa police custody officer) has to explain what guilty and not guilty means. He eventually pleads guilty and is fined after more casual 'translation' from the off-screen person.

Then a 50-year-old found unconscious and drunk at the steering wheel of a running car on Streatham Road. Pleads guilty to driving without insurance or a licence while over the alcohol limit. He's at Wandsworth police station and the audio sounds like a swimming pool.

A Spanish speaking man appears from Maidstone prison. He should have had an interpreter booked, an interpreter is called and translates through the conference phone, which has to be moved around the room between judge and screen so the defendants can hear.

A 21yo admits having a kitchen knife in public via video from Wandsworth police station, he's twisted to the side in his seat and leaning with elbows on his knees to see and hear the court/laptop. Bailed for a pre-sentence report as prison 'likely' according to judge.

The district judge asks the prosecutor to stay in the room as 'it's easier if there are as few parties over the link as possible' but this is declined and she goes back to her office - in the same building.

'if you feel you need to be in your room then so be it.'

Another 21yo appears from Wandsworth. Admits assault on his mother and criminal damage. Confirming a potential bail address while awaiting sentence takes ages as the sound is so bad - I think the legal advisor was pretending to hear him confirm his name/DOB/address.

Probation claim he has only attended 3 out of 13 appointments for a community order and sus sentence he already has. Solicitor unable to take instructions as she's at home and he's at the police station, so there's no way for them to quietly chat through the dock window.

First physical hearing: Four defendants appear accused of holding a person in slavery and intimidating a witness, three of them are in full niqab. Their solicitors say they are unable to identify who they are, and it's the first time they've met anyway.

A defendant who apparently had a fit in the dock yesterday appears from HMP Wandsworth, he can't/won't talk, is groaning and seems to have limited control of his limbs. For ten minutes after the hearing the court tries to contact the prison and he sits there on the screen.

A prison officer appears and judge says: 'For somebody like Mr Martin who fitted yesterday and stayed in hospital overnight I would have thought somebody would be with him.'