In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all people have an ability to bring their claims before a court. Course The direction of continuing movement The boat took a northern course. Court An ...
On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be--as here they are--mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair...
It could be argued that in some areas of UK law there is already compulsory mediation. Courts have wide-ranging powers to award settlements and cost orders which reflect the approach to mediation, and the more precedent which is seen, then the more prescriptive that can be seen to be. The ...
The United Nations is an international organization that came into existence in 1945. The purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace in the world. The most important countries that took part in its emergence are France, the Republic of China, the USA, the Soviet Union, and the UK alon...
In the UK, the term 'circuit court' is still unofficially used to refer to seven regional courts established in 2005 by Her Majesty’s Court Service (HMCS). Before 2005, these region courts were called circuit courts, and they were presided over by a circuit judge. The region courts have...
But instead of deciding for themselves, the justices ordered lower courts to work out precisely how to apply their decision to Trump's case. The lower court must now decide whether he was acting officially or privately. It comes months after a US appeal court ruled in February that Trump...
Rachel explained that Access Info are currently running a project to improve the right to information in four countries. Access to Information (ATI) is a fundamental right, and recognised globally as such — but it doesn’t always work in practice. Countries may have a legal framework, but ho...
The second important theme emerging from Alexander and Sherwin’s account is that the common law is not an expression of analogical reasoning as is usually (pro)claimed. Alexander and Sherwin are clear about this: ‘courts cannot, logically, be doing what they claim to be doing when they find...
What does the Department of Justice do in the U.K.? What is a mittimus in criminal law? What are the various models of the criminal justice process? What are the three major components of the criminal justice system? What is the role of courts in criminal justice today? What is the ...
Today the US operates under a dual system of both common and civil law. The courts, for example, operate under common law. What is an example of common law? The concept of common-law marriage, which acknowledges similar rights as those that have a marriage license to couples that are not...