Court (The War Games)
The Second Doctor was tried by a court of Time Lords in his trial following the War Games. (TV: The War Games) The Third Doctor would later refer to them as "the Tribunal"; (PROSE: The Eight Doctors) by some accounts, the court was known as the "High Tribunal". (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon, The Quantum Archangel)
However, its exact nature and membership was a matter of some debate.
By some accounts, this court was the High Court of the Time Lords, (PROSE: The Trial of Doctor Who, World Game, Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor) whose members included prosecutor ᔑx²-›‾‹, counsel for the defence Δ:ʮ≠β, and court reporter Xa/6↑∝. ∅μ³-∝ additionally served as court archivist. (PROSE: The Trial of Doctor Who)
However, in contrast to those accounts which claimed that the court was a Tribunal acting on the authority of, but distinct in actual membership from, the High Council, (TV: The Deadly Assassin, PROSE: War Crimes) other sources accounts claimed that the Doctor had been tried directly by the High Council, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons, TV: The Mysterious Planet) under the leadership of the Lord President himself; (PROSE: The Three Doctors) the three representatives of the Council were known as the Three; (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey) this matched with some accounts describing them as the First Time Lord, Second Time Lord and Third Time Lord. (TV: The War Games, PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon) However, in contrast to the aforementioned accounts identifying the Lord President as the "First Time Lord" of the Second Doctor's court, (PROSE: The Three Doctors) two other accounts claimed that the leader of the court was Goth, the High Chancellor. (PROSE: War Crimes, The Legacy of Gallifrey)
Yet another account suggested the court were not part of Gallifrey's public hierarchy on any level, but, rather, agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency. (PROSE: Lungbarrow) Other accounts acknowledged that some individual members of the court had been covert C.I.A. agent, without claiming that the trial was "officially", as it were, a C.I.A. affair. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey)
