Colloquy - Definition and Overview

In law, a colloquy is a routine, highly formalized conversation between a defendant and a judge. The term is typically applied to the conversation that takes place when a defendant enters into a plea bargain and the judge is supposed to verify that the defendant understands that they are waiving their right to a jury trial. They have been heavily criticized as a parody of justice, similar in their empty formalism to the collusive divorces that were common before the advent of no-fault divorce.

Colloquy is an IRC and SILC client for Mac OS X. It uses Irssi as its IRC protocol engine, and supports customizable message views using XSLT and Apple computer's WebKit renderer, which is based on KHTML.

The software supports plugins enabling integration with the OS X environment, and provides a user interface consistent with other Macintosh applications in addition to traditional IRC command-line controls.

External links

• colloquy.info (Official website)