Йеошуа 11:13 Галаха: Shulchan Arukh, Choshen Mishpat

It has already become the adopted practice [among] all the Courts of Law in Israel after the [close of] the Talmud that they permit the litigants and also the witnesses to be seated¹⁶Yad, Sanhedrin XXI, 5. Since ex post facto this would be valid because the requirement for the litigants to stand at the time of the conclusion of the case and that of the witnesses during testimony is similar. , supra n. 12. in order to eliminate dissension,¹⁷For very often this may lead to strife. Nevertheless, both the witnesses and the litigants who are G-d-fearing people should adopt a stringency in this matter and thus comply with the Biblical verse, And the two men shall stand (BaḤ) — ShaK. However, many Courts of Law even nowadays adopt the practice to have the litigants and the witnesses stand especially during the conclusion of the trial — A.H. for we are [nowadays] powerless to maintain the laws of our faith in conformity with their original authoritativeness.¹⁸Heb. על תלם. , Josh. XI, 13, RaDaK and Targum a.l.