Grass court

legal action in court (Collins Dictionaries 2011). The process of taking legal action involves the usage of language. Ordinary everyday language is adapted in many ways to form a sublanguage of legal language (Tiersma 2008). This is also known as legalese (Post 2015). Legalese is used in all aspects regarding the law and thus is used in court and by all court participants (Conley and O'Barr 2005). More often than not, some participants are not fluent in legalese and…

custody is a written account documentation which shows the custody, control, movement, transfer, analysis, and location of physical or electronic proof from the time it’s obtained until it is presented in the court of law. The evidence found at the crime scene must be presented in the court for further developments in the case. These evidences has to be validated and secured properly so that during the trial it will not be contaminated and the evidence is relevant to crime investigation. Chain…

One of the main topics that was displayed in the movie was conformity. Conformity can be described as the act of changing one’s behavior to fit in with a group (Crutchfield, 1955). After the closing arguments of the trial, deliberations by the jurors begin on whether the boy is guilty or not. As the jurors make themselves comfortable in the jury room, casual exchanges are made between the jurors. This is where the first step of conformity takes place. It is seen that juror #2 talks about how…

The jury system has been used for over two centuries to give an impartial trial for over countless cases. The court consists of six to twelve jurors, two lawyers, and a judge. This set of people has a duty to America to give fair trials to every case that goes through the system. As society and technology changes, people believe that the jury system should change along with it. With this, the jury system is considered an outdated system, but it has been successful since its creation to select an…

Judges’ Opinions about Adjudicative Competence” (Cox, 2012). The author focus on this research is to investigate whether the defendant’s ages and levels of psychosocial maturity would affect judge’s ratings of juveniles in a juvenile and criminal court (Cox, 2012). The method they use on this research they mail 48 judges from 25 states. The cases in which a state did not have more than 48 judges, all judges were recruited for participation (Cox, 2012). There was 342 participants 73.4% were men…

contempt of court to publish, without a court’s permission, a report of a private hearing which is under the Children Act 1989 or the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or which otherwise relate wholly or mainly to the maintenance or upbringing of a child. Relevantly, an example of a controversial case about reporting restrictions is the Re P (a child) case where, an Italian mother, who was pregnant was a resident in the UK and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. The Court of…

purpose of the court system is to help resolve problems fairly. It can consist of individuals vs. individuals or individuals vs. state. Therefore, the system allows everyone to bring their claims before the court whether they are the accused or the defendant. Within the court building, there are multiple court rooms where all the trials are heard. In addition, the court sometimes houses offenders in jail temporarily, for example overnight. The London police works hand in hand with the court in…

In the two texts ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘Twelve Angry Men’, the protagonists face conflicts through standing up for what is right and standing alone by telling others what is right. In ‘On the Waterfront’, Terry Malloy faces the conflict of whether to or not to testify against Johnny Friendly. Terry has an inner conflict with Edie when he isn’t sure if he should stay ‘Deaf & Dumb’ or testify. Father Barry and Edie continually challenge Terry which then gives him the courage to testify against…

The room was extremely quiet as my team and I walked in. Everyone in the room turned their eyes to look at us. I was terrified of what this trial would entail, but I didn’t let my face show it. My team and I were about to face the defending champions of Empire Atlanta and I didn’t know if we could pull off the win. These were the people standing in the way of my team getting to the finals of the competition. As the trial went on I grew the confidence my team and my abilities. I took a shaky…

Most people will choose to go with the flow rather than against it, even if it means being untruthful to others or themselves. This is shown in the way the twelve jurors in Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose. When the jurors first voted they all voted guilty except for juror eight, who believed that there was reasonable doubt. The jurors go against the defendant ,in order to leave quickly and get back to their own families, without any doubt of them doing the right thing. That is, when juror…