Judicial institutions
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 387.
JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS
LIST OF WORDS
| family court | to release a suspect |
| juvenile court | supreme lawmaking body |
| Reassessment | to overturn the decision |
| Appellant | appeal for pardon |
| Appellee | appeal to reason |
| Appellate | appellate judge |
| Queen's Bench Division | proceeding |
| chancery | safeguard |
| charge | the abuse of power |
| conditional bail | at random |
| unconditional bail | evidence |
| to hold a suspect in custody | to deliberate |
| Offence | court of first instance |
| Jury | ignorance of the law |
| Solicitor | to take an oath |
| question of fact | to challenge a juror |
| question of law = point of law | writ of execution |
| to appeal against the finding | unprejudiced |
| law lords | to misapply the law |
| industrial tribunal | adherence to smth |
| court of appeal | ignorance of a decision |
| court judgement | to lay down principles and guidelines |
| leave to appeal | to be in keeping with |
| appeal of a decision | contempt of court |
| to lodge / file an appeal | lawsuit |
| appeal hearing | to be eligible for smth |
| to deny bail | to convict smb of smth |
| to stand bail for smb | to meet requirements |
| to accept/ allow/ take bail | to be excused from service |
| to save/ surrender one's bail |
TEXT 1
In all legal systems there are institutions for creating, modifying, abolishing and applying the law. Usually these take the form of a hierarchy of courts. The role of each court and its capacity to make decisions is strictly defined in relation to other courts. There are two main reasons for having a variety of courts. One is that a particular court can specialize in particular kinds of legal actions — for example, family courts and juvenile courts. The other is so that a person who feels his case was not fairly treated in a lower court can appeal to a higher court for reassessment (although the right of appeal usually depends upon the appellant being able to show certain reasons for his dissatisfaction). The decisions of a higher court are binding upon lower courts. At the top of the hierarchy is a supreme lawmaking body, but the process of taking an action from a lower court to the highest court may be very time consuming and costly.
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