Courts of England and Wales

Differences between healthcare and social care in the welfare state Health and social services in the United Kingdom, as in many other countries worldwide, provide a vast range of services for individuals that require continuing or ongoing health or personal care needs. However, there is a clear and distinct difference between the two, and this is in relation to government funding. NHS or the National Health Service is a government funded service and thus a patient that requires continuing…

Criminologists would define sentences as; ‘the handing down to convicted defendants of specified penalties, such as incarceration or probation’. In, England and Wales it is the duty of criminal justice to punish those who take part in acts that the Law does not approve of. This essay will elaborate on how judges pass their last judgement in the court and the factors that might aid them consider the type of sentences they oppose on offenders and the length of the sentence. The understanding of…

-The Children Act (1989): Introduced comprehensive changes to legislation in England and Wales surrounding the welfare of children. As well as ensuring that the welfare of the child is paramount, the act identified the responsibility of parents and of those who work with children to ensure the safety of the child. Below I will set out the main aims of this act: 1. It is important that we create a balance between protecting the children and the rights of parents to challenge state intervention if…

whether the Court can lift up the corporate veil. Solomon vs. Solomon is a famous case for determining the case for lifting up the corporate veil. Nowadays the above principle is used when there is unjust to the…

yet written about. England History shows that King Henry II played a critical role in establishing the foundation of England’s judiciary (Terrill, 2013). Having the support of the people and combining his new ideas with past ones, he successfully restructured the system (Terrill, 2013). Because the people wanted the king to be a deciding factor of judicial cases, Henry created three courts. 1. Court of Exchequer: determines issues between the king and taxpayers. 2. Court of Common Pleas:…

England, the central nation of the United Kingdom and much of the Western World for centuries, is named for a derivative of the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles". The Angles are an ancient Germanic people whose presence in history is dated as far back as the first century AD. Since then, the small island nation has grown politically, economically, and territorially. While most of this territorial gain has not been permanent, the British empire was at one point the…

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in height (10 feet to 100 feet), and from 30 metres to 90 metres in diameter (100 feet to 300 feet). This minimum height of 3 metres (10 feet) for mottes is usually intended to exclude smaller mounds which often had non-military purposes.in England and Wales, only 7% of mottes were taller than ten metres high; 24% were between ten and five metres, and 69% were less than five metres tall. A motte was protected by a ditch around it, which would typically have also been a source of the earth and…

Christian religion in England related to the necessity of proving that the Anglo-Saxon’s were deficient in their religious practices. As the Norman conquest was frequently framed as one of moral duty in the restoration of the proper practices of the Church, a lack of piety became the common depiction of the British Isles. In actuality, many religious practices were still commonplace, not just within the clergy, but throughout the classes. Within “Court and Piety in Late Anglo-Saxon England,” the…

her permission to wear a ‘purity’ ring symbolic of her belief as a Christian in pre-marital sexual abstinence. Superstone QC turned to Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 and identified one of the particular issues before the court: whether the wearing of the ring was a manifestation of the claimant’s religious belief within article 9. Addressing the issue of manifestation Superstone applied the doctrine of precedent and relied on the House of Lords’ decisions in R (Begum)…