Bench of Justice - Quality Update
Hello Judges,

This update focuses on improving readability, interface clarity, accessibility, localization, and the overall flow of the courtroom experience.

Courtroom UI Improvements
The courtroom screen has been redesigned to reduce visual noise and make each phase clearer. Testimony, evidence review, judge actions, objectives, credibility, and tension now have better hierarchy depending on the current stage of the trial.

We also improved layout behavior on smaller screens and laptop resolutions, fixed elements that could fall outside the visible frame, and adjusted several panels to avoid unnecessary scrollbars.

Evidence & Contradiction Flow
Finding contradictions should now feel clearer and more rewarding.

This update adds:

Better visual guidance when identifying contradictions
Stronger feedback when a contradiction is discovered
Highlighting for the relevant testimony and evidence
Improved evidence panel sizing
Cleaner evidence inspection behavior
Safer progression when the player needs to continue after evidence review
Verdict Screen Redesign
The verdict screen has been rebuilt as a more premium judicial report.

It now includes:

A clearer case summary
Your ruling versus the true outcome
Key evidence impact
Reputation effects
More polished verdict presentation
Career & Free Mode Improvements
Career mode has been expanded into a proper judge dashboard with:

Case history
Reputation trajectory
Judicial rank progression
Achievements
Judge profile information
Active career risks
Free Mode case selection has also been improved with filtering by difficulty, type, duration, and case tags such as criminal, civil, ethics, and high-impact.

Main Menu & Bug Reporting
A new bug report module has been added to the main menu.

Players can now send reports directly through Formspree, including automatic runtime details such as language, viewport, route, recent gameplay telemetry, and basic game state. Empty reports are now blocked to make submissions more useful.

Localization Fixes
We reviewed and normalized UI localization coverage across all supported languages.

All language dictionaries now contain the same number of UI keys, reducing missing or fallback text in menus, tutorials, evidence screens, verdict screens, and career UI.

Other Fixes
This update also includes:

Main menu cleanup
Removed unnecessary Options buttons from several screens
Improved language selector sizing
Better vertical character image presentation
Reduced layout overflow in dashboard panels
Save/reputation behavior reviewed and cleaned up
Multiple small UI polish fixes across the game
Thank you for playing and for reporting issues. Your feedback directly shapes the next updates to Bench of Justice.