To resolve the difficulty of ensuring local justice on a territory as large and fragmented as French Polynesia, the itinerant court was established locally at the end of the nineteenth century to allow hearings to be held in the absence of a tribunal. This article looks at the mobile court hearings. It concerns itself with the way they reveal the multiple and strong asymmetries—in geographic, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic terms—, prevailing in the relationship with the state and its representatives in the islands located on the edges of the French Republic. It examines the difficulties that arise in this context and that constrain or even prevent, to some extent, communication during hearings, while, somewhat paradoxically, hearings are meant to focus on oral expression.