Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Legal Method
- Constitutions
- Parliament
- legislature: Prime Minister, HL, HC + Monarch
- Executive
- Government, Cabinet, Minister + Monarch
- Judiciary
- Courts
- Judiciary
- Court Fuctionaires
- Clerk of Court
- Time keeping and advices judge
- Court Recorder
- Publishes courts decision
- Bailiff
- Manages people
- Usher
- Helps witness + seating
- Superior judge
- High court, court of Appeal and Supreme court
- Inferior Judge
- District judge- Magistrates and County court
- Recorder- Crown and County
- Circuit judge- Crown and County
- Appeals system
- Civil
- Non judicial resolutions
- Negotiations
- Informal, cheap and quick
- Arbitration
- More formal, expensive and binding
- Mediartion
- 3rd party hears cases separately
- Small claims
- less then £5000 in county court
- Fast Track
- £5000-£25000 in county court and dealt with in 30 weeks
- Multi track claims
- over £25000 in county or high court
- Criminal
- Magistartes
- 6 months sent
- Level 5 fine
- Defendant chooses trial by jury
- Crown Court
- preliminary hearing
- With Jury
- Court of Appeal
- Defendant against conviction or sentence
- Prosecution- error of law
- Supreme Court
- Point of law of general public importance
- Citation
- Neutral citation
- parties, year of judgment, court and case number.
- Old Citation
- Year, Volume, Abbreviation of series 1st pg of report and court
- Statutory Interpretation
- Literal rule
- Fisher v Bell
- Golden rule
- R v Allen
- Mischief rule
- Heydons
- Purposive appraoch
- Pepper v Hart
- EU Statute
- Von Colson
- Edusdem generis rule
- Expressio unius est escusio alterius
- Noscitur a sociis
- Precedents
- Courts bound by decisions of superior courts
- Bound by previous decision of own court
- Persuasive precedents
- Obiter dicta from courts above, ratios from lower courts
- Practice statement
- Conway v Rimmer
- Distinguishing
- Merrit v Merrit
- EU Law
- ECHR
- S1- conventions rights
- S2- interpreting conventions
- S3- Interpreting legislation
- Ghaidin
- S4- Declaration of Incompatibity
- Mendoza
- Vertical Effect
- Individual and state
- Horizontal effect
- Individual and Individual
- primary - treaties
- Secondary-directives