Case law

implementing laws and is made up of the Prime Minister and secretaries of state also known as the cabinet . Parliament is the supreme law-making body in the UK. It is made up of elected members of the public in order to represent society. Parliament has two main duties. One duty is to legislate and the other duty is to debate on matters of urgent public importance . The final body is the Judiciary. A judge’s role is to simply apply the law to a case brought to them and to explain the law to a…

Stops and frisks are some of the strategies that law-enforcement agencies use to help prevent crime and also to protect the officers and the innocent people from the dangers that could be the outcome of those crimes. Well, this is what exactly happened one afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio on 1968. Martin McFadden who has been a “police detective for thirty nine years” observed two men who were “acting strangely out on the streets of downtown Cleveland” (Criminal Procedure et al). According to…

that law comes from in Scotland are Statutory Sources of Law and Common Law Sources. b) The more importantly looked at sources of law include legislation. These are European legislation, UK legislation and Scottish legislation. Although these are seen as the most important sources of law the Common Law sources must not be overlooked. c) The Statutory sources of Law are constituted in three sources. This includes European legislation, UK legislation and Scottish legislation. The Common Law…

Workers' compensation law addresses legal concerns differently than other areas of tort law. While personal injury law or even other employment concerns can go through the same court systems, workers' comp suits have their own administrative courts. Although some have described this system as simpler than standard civil courts, complexity is not necessarily lost because of a different court environment. As a result, workers' compensation litigation can certainly be confusing to the average…

Most people who are foreign to the concept of modern law enforcement training believe that training for new officers ends when they graduate from the police academy (Warners, 2010). For at least the last forty years this has not been the case (Warners, 2010). The police academy is certainly a very important aspect of a new officers’ career. Reaves (1990) stated that the average police recruit receives approximately 402 hours of training in the police academy (Daly, 2004). The classroom training…

To start off with, rape shield law is a law which prohibits the use of evidence of a victim’s past sexual history to predict the victim’s credibility. In this case, a woman accuses two men of raping her but both of the defendants claim that the sexual activity was consensual. (consensual: agreed to by the people involved in it.) The two men have evidence they want to present at the trail which are, a fourth person witnessed the accuser flirting aggressively with numerous men at a local bar. The…

INTRODUCTION. It is an established common law principle that a decision by a superior court should be binding on inferior courts, hence, the ratio of past cases are legally binding on subsequent cases. This concept is called precedent and it is designed to give effect to the fact that the English law to some large extent is based on case law, and that case laws are not mere materials which a judge takes into consideration when making a decision on a particular case. Binding precedents are…

decided cases. Stare decisis is a legal rule which dictates that courts cannot disrespect the standard. The court must endorse prior decisions. In essence, this legal principle dictates that once a law has been determined by the appellate court (which hears and determines appeals from the decisions of the trial courts) to be relevant to the facts of the case, future cases will follow the same principle of law if they involve considerably identical facts. Stare decisis…

guilty of the alleged assault charges brought to the court by his wife, Mrs. Jane Smith. This case, as so many in the United States court system are, ought to be viewed while keeping past rulings with coinciding facts in mind for the purpose of preserving precedent. Precedent is a core principle of the judicial decision making process that uses past relevant cases as the standard for ruling in future cases with similarities and should be implemented as it produces consistency among rulings.…

proofs are not there and the law relays heavy on them. Should the law be considering eyewitnesses as evidence and are they accurate? Many psychologists, theorists and case studies have disagreed and have proven that there are many inaccuracies to eyewitness. The main factor as to why eyewitnesses are inaccurate is because of memory. Memory is terms of inaccuracies of eyewitness accounts means a person’s retention, recall and schemas. The following six literature review and case studies will…