| PROSECUTORS | People who institute or conduct legal proceedings, especially in a criminal court (11) |
| PROSECUTOR | Person who institutes or conducts legal proceedings |
| INTHEDOCK | Expression meaning 'on trial', especially in a criminal case (2,3,4) |
| PROSECUTE | Conduct legal proceedings against a trespasser? (9) |
| SUE | You'll find us going back to the seat to conduct legal proceedings (3) |
| SUER | One who institutes a legal proceeding |
| RESTITUTION | Damages from institute, or its representation (11) |
| ALIBI | A plea in a criminal court of having been elsewhere at a relevant time (5) |
| DOCK | The enclosure in a criminal court where a defendant sits or stands (4) |
| CHARGESHEET | Attack with rope may result in a criminal record (11) |
| LEADNITRATE | Criminal finally treated in a criminal compound |
| TRIED | Attempted to be heard in a criminal court (5) |
| JUROR | One serving in a criminal court (5) |
| BANK | Institute or piggy for one's pecuniary brass; or, a river's sloping edge covered in osiers, rip-rap or sedgy grass (4) |
| THINKTANK | Research institute ... or, when read as a direction, a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| APOLOGIA | A written defence or justification of the opinions or conduct of someone (8) |
| DECORUM | Word for seemliness; propriety in behaviour or conduct; or, decency (7) |
| ARRAIGNS | Calls before a criminal court |
| WAGE | ___ a war: start or conduct a war? |
| ESCORT | Whether referring to a wrongful removal in a criminal way or a poltergeist's trick of "spiriting" an object astray, it's from Latin's "carry away" (6) |
