Courts where lockdown fines depended on day case was heard In behind-closed-doors hearings, magistrates handed out fines to lockdown breakers that could depend more on when the case was heard than what a defendant had done 18:14, 30 APR 2021 Updated Breaking lockdown would land you with a fine, but the courts handing them out have been condemned as "opaque" and "arbitrary" (Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Miiror) “Unjust” court hearings conducted in private resulted in wildly different punishments for lockdown breaches, the ECHO can reveal. An analysis of lockdown cases dealt with by Mersey...