A court is a pretty specialised environment. If I was in the dock, I really wouldn't want to end up in jail because some dickhead's mobile phone put my lawyer off and made him forget to ask an important question. As far as I'm concerned, failure to turn a mobile off in a place where being able to hear without distractions is 100% contempt for those around you. In a cinema or concert, it's merely ignorant but has no other impact. In court, you're talking about debating someone's future, and failure to make that connection is contempt for the system.

Graham.