Scots law

the Name of Great Britain’. Scots law is a legal system which includes elements of civil law and common law. Scots law is based on several sources of law: the legislation or statute law, a written enactment of legal rules passed by the Parliament; the common law: judicial precedent, institutional writings and custom. Legislation is the primary source of Scots law and it is decided and approved by the parliamentary will. There are three sources of legislation binding in Scots law: - European legislation - UK legislation - Scottish legislation The law-making power of the…

here are two recognised standards of proof in Scots law. The first is beyond reasonable doubt, which is usually in criminal cases. The second is on the balance of probabilities which arises mostly in the civil context. This would suggest that the law on the standard of proof is straightforward. However ambiguity arises in the argument that there is or that there should be a third standard. Another important complication to this area of the law arises when considering civil circumstances that may…

The Scotland Act 1998 was responsible for the devolution of significant areas of civil law such as family law, planning law and bankruptcy law to Holyrood. The administrative workings of the Scottish legal systems are far removed from that from the rest of the UK. This includes the structures of the courts, court procedures and the funding of legal aid. (Scottish Parliament Information Centre, 2014). In Scotland, there are 3 main types of civil courts, namely, the Sheriff Courts, Court of…

Twelve Angry Men is a film about a jury of twelve men who are assessing a murder trial. The trial’s outcome would determine if an 18 year would be sentenced to death. The men went into the jury room with an assumption that the defendant was guilty. They did an open vote where everyone raised their hands to determine who felt he was guilty or not guilty. Every juror, but one, raised their hands for guilty, some of the jurors slowly raised their hands after seeing the rest of the room raise their…

Poor Roll. The Poor Roll was a list of people who could not afford legal service but had probable cause of action to pursue or defend a legal matter (Thomson 1950). Legal services were distributed to the people on this list either by attorneys volunteering to give their service or by assignments of attorneys to Poor Roll cases (Thomson 1950). Although not every indigent person received legal aid, most thought the Poor Roll system was sufficient until the twentieth century. However, in 1949, the…

What’s The Author's Purpose? A jury of a dozen men all come together to come to a conclusion of guilty or not guilty, but someone is always not on the same page as the others what do you do? Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose is an example of what happens in a jury. I think Rose’s purpose of writing this is to entertain us, the readers and I also believe he was once in the jury himself and he wanted to show his experience. In Rose 1 they voted eleven to one NO.8 voted not guilty and the others…

Disagreements tend to happen often, which most likely causes arguments, threats, and other unpleasant actions. When a person does not agree with you, you automatically want to convince them otherwise. In the play ‘’12 angry men’’ all 12 men that are on jury have to come to an agreement of guilty or not guilty for a case of a nineteen year old male who is begin charge of murder. As soon as the play began one of the twelve men had already accused the boy as guilty without any discussion or…

The film, “12 Angry Men”, is about a group of twelve jurors who have to discuss and thoroughly analyze a case. These jurors have to decide whether the eighteen-year-old Hispanic boy is guilty or not. However, there isn’t much evidence, besides two eye-witnesses and a knife. So, the group of jurors have to come up with their own reasons as to why they believe the boy is guilty or not. There is a lot of group hate within this group. Eleven out of the twelve jurors initially vote guilty, and there…

The jurors had several conflicts in disagreeing with each other and it didn't help that they would shout over one another. The very first conflict is when juror 8 voted not guilty against the 11 guilty votes. The other 11 jurors don't seem to want to hear this man out; they don't want to hear why he has voted not guilty. Some of these men, jurors 3 and 7, just want to get this case over with so they can get on with their lives. They don't think it is imperative enough to look over the evidence…

This case study is over the film 12 Angry Men, revolving around the verdict of a murder case and the 12 jurors charged with making the decision. The jury is comprised of middle aged men or older from various occupations, cultures, and backgrounds. One particular juror is the only member of the jury willing to avoid a snap decision that is pressured by the remaining jurors to get out early. He leads the discussion amongst the other jurors playing devil’s advocate to their guilty verdicts. As the…