Possible Clues:

• Sneakily picked up things from kit that's unopened and apparently locked?
• Yearn to have case dismissed as judge listened
• Agreed working to fix rug was a bugger!
• Listened in with appreciation, then reprimanded
• Listened without the speaker's knowledge
• Listened in Conference perhaps, powerless, as judge
• Listened in with attention like a judge
• Intercepted communications stirred up war I urged on both sides
• Eavesdropped