Court of the Portreeve (Torrune)

The Court of the Portreeve, also cometimes called the Portreeve's Hall, is the monumental edifice in Torrune's Low City where the city's Portreeve and his subordinate magistrates conduct their official duties. Here they sit in judgment over cases of fraud, toll evasion, smuggling, and so forth, as well as hear and settle commercial disputes, and take counsel over matters of public concern. 
It is a large and imposing structure located on the south edge of Aulgu's Market, built of distinctive tawny sandstone and white granite with crimson-glazed tiles on its high, multi-domed roof. Among the colonnades that surround its forecourt and the arcaded galleries that run along its sides, rich merchants and their retinues may often be seen awaiting their hearing, along with common criminals (most frequently smugglers) guarded by troops of the Archon’s halberdiers.