jurisdiction of the Scottish criminal and civil courts. Give examples of the types of cases these courts will hear and indicate which Scottish legal personnel you would expect to find there. Scottish courts are divided into two distinct and separate systems‚ each with its own jurisdiction and terminology. As stated above these are the civil and criminal courts. First of all I will look into the structure and jurisdiction of the civil courts. The civil court deals with disputes between individuals
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confidential. For a juvenile to have there file sealed they have to request it from the court. Most get probation with circumstances like community service‚ counseling or drug treatment. We have to look at juveniles differently than we do adults because of their developmental progress. Every juvenile officer who goes through training becomes knowledgeable about the juvenile developmental process. Research of court procedures in the state of Nevada for juveniles offenders who have not yet reached 18
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-Homeopathic remedies allow the body to heal itself without any harmful affects that might come from the use of conventional drugs -The history of homeopathy dates as far back as Hippocrates in the 5th century. It was also used by Egyptians. -Most people take medicine in strong doses so the drug will produce the opposite condition of what they have. -But Homeopathy works in the opposite way. -The doses are very diluted. -Many people like to use homeopathic remedies because they
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On November 16‚ 2012‚ I observed a court hearing of 14 cases. Some of these cases dealt with people who committed crimes such as aggravated assault‚ Acc involving Death/ Injury‚ Terroristic threats‚ Retail theft‚ conspiracy theft‚ Resist Arrest/Other Law Enforce and Knowing/ in Mftr/Dist of Design Drug. For the case of Comm. V. Helen Cole was a Retail Theft crime. The defendant Helen Cole was at Sears and stole items such as clothes at the store. She was ordered not to go to the Sears again and
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AJ 101 Course # Court Visit On November 29‚ 2011‚ I had the opportunity to go to Los Angles Superior Court and was able to sit and observe during a Preliminary Hearing. The case that I sat in was about a rape case in which a young girl of approximately twelve years old said that her grandfather‚ who was about sixty years old would sexually touch her and do certain things to her everytime she would go over to her grandparents house. The prosecutor asked the young girl a serious of questions such
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Introduction The issue of sex education has long been a controversial one. The two basic types of sex education in the United States are abstinence-only and comprehensive. While comprehensive education advocates abstinence as the primary defense against unwanted pregnancy‚ sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)‚ and HIV/AIDS‚ it also addresses the inevitability that some adolescents have or will engage in sexual behavior. Twenty-one of the fifty states have school districts which provide condom
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hierarchy structure of courts. Each one of these courts has their own functions. The federal courts are formed by different levels. The United States Supreme Court is the top court in the USA. It is the final authority to appeal in all federal and state cases (Haire et al. 2003). The Supreme Court is the interpreter of federal constitutional laws. From the Supreme Court is the United States Court of Appeals. This is the appeal court of the federal judicial system. The court of appeal makes decisions
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The US Court System The courts are the overseers of the law. They administer it‚ they resolve disputes under it‚ and they ensure that it is and remains equal to and impartial for everyone. In the United States each state is served by the separate court systems‚ state and federal. Both systems are organized into three basic lev- - els of courts — trial courts‚ intermediate courts of appeal and a high court‚ or Supreme Court. The state courts are concerned essentially with cases arising under state
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Courts in UK Her Majesty’s Courts of Justice of England and Wales are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in England and Wales; they apply the law of England and Wales and are established under Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom does not have a single unified judicial system—England and Wales have one system‚ Scotland another‚ and Northern Ireland a third. There are exceptions to this rule; for example in immigration law‚ the
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References: Prentice-Hall‚ Pearson Education‚ Inc. (2003). Our Criminal Justice System: Chapter 3 The Courts in Our Criminal Justice System:[Axia College Custom Edition e-text]. Retrieved June 1‚ 2008‚ from Axia College‚ rEsource‚ CJS220-The Court System. Voelkel‚ S. (1997). Pop Culture Skews images of Real-Life Lawyers. Retrieved July 5‚ 2008‚ from http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/0124/default3.htm "Federal judges
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