1.   Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently attacked the legal machinery of capital punishment.

2.   Rather than increasing the sentence, three appeal court judges substituted a three-year probation order requiring him to undergo treatment or counselling.

3.   The appeal court judge described the sentence as a gross overreaction to the recent spate of bombing campaigns.

4.   Three appeal court judges reserved judgment.

5.   People who live near the site told appeal judge Colin Willis that music from last years event had kept them awake all night.

6.   An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week.

7.   A FATHER had committed an assault by slapping his baby daughter on the bare bottom in a fit of temper, three appeal judges ruled yesterday.

8.   Now, that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case.