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Legal System - Jud

Judiciary

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Who are the three inferior types of judges? District, Recorder, Circuit
Who are the three superior judges? High Court, Lord/Lady Justices of Appeal, Justices of the Supreme Court
What courts do District judges sit in? (criminal) Magistrates, (civil) County Court, Crown Court?
What courts do recorder Judges sit in? Crown Court, County Court + part time
What courts do Circuit Judges sit in? (criminal) Crown Court, (civil) County Court
What courts do High Court Judges sit in? High Court (may be transferred to other divisions by Lord Chancellor), (criminal)Crown Court
What courts do Lord/Lady Justices of Appeal sit in? Court of Appeal
What courts do the Justices of the Supreme Court sit in? Supreme Court, Privy Council. There are 12 justices of the SC
What judges only hear appeals? Lord/Lady justices of Appeal, Justices of the Supreme Court
What are the three arms of the state? Legislature, Executive, Judiciary
What is the legislature and what does it do? parliament (HL, HC, Monarch) - passes/creates laws
What is the Executive and what does it do? Government (ministers/civil servants/sec of state) - runs/governs the country
What is the Judiciary and what does it do? Judges/courts who apply and interpret the law (SI)
What was AV Diceys opinnion on separation of powers? parliament is sovereign
How have the three arms of the state become more seperate/independant? Supreme Court replaced House of Lords, Law Lords no longer in House of Lords, lord chancellor no longer head of the judiciary
Where is there/used to be not much seperation between the three arms of the state? Lord Chancellor used to be in all three (no longer judiciary - lord cheif justice now), overlap between executive and legislature
How did the theory of separation of powers originate? + what was it? Theory first put forward by Montesquieu - three arms of state to be kept independant of each other
How are judges kept independant? Financial support (<bribes), Job security, Immunity from suit (confidence), media pressure, can declare conflicts of interest
Created by: Oscar.G
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