Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court? Over the past ten years‚ more research has been done involving children’s testimony than that of all the prior decades combined. Ceci & Bruck (93) have cited four reasons for this : - The opinion of psychology experts is increasingly being accepted by courts as testimony‚ - Social research is more commonly being applied to the issues of children’s rights‚ - More research into adult suggestibility in accordance with reason naturally leads to more
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Looking to the days to come‚ Darrow crafts his plea in the name of the descendants of all present in that Chicago courtroom. Purporting his plea as not intended to benefit the guilty‚ but instead the jury‚ Darrow convinces the jury that to spare the boys their lives would be to preserve the well-being of the entire community‚ effectively appealing to the jury’s personal
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THE TRIAL 4.1 Courtroom Setting The Prosecution/Plaintiff team shall be seated closest to the jury box. No team shall rearrange the courtroom without prior permission from the presiding judge. 4.2 Stipulations Stipulations shall be considered part of the record and already admitted into evidence. 4.3 Reading into the Record
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had to say about this. Did what she had to say change your views?) Culture is explained as two components: objects and actions. The objects are physical tools and the culturally specific ways that these tools are used. Actions are the ways that participants of a social group think and interact with each other (20). The authors explain‚ “Rather than discuss culture that feel alien and remote‚ we will
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According to Braithwaite (2004)‚ restorative justice is: ...a process where all stakeholders affected by an injustice have an opportunity to discuss how they have been affected by the injustice and to decide what should be done to repair the harm. With crime‚ restorative justice is about the idea that because crime hurts‚ justice should heal. It follows that conversations with those who have been hurt and with those who have afflicted the harm must be central to the process. The process of restorative
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situations that provoke anxiety‚ or another might be a conversation among a group of factory workers about the royal family. Also a qualitative method‚ conversational analysis (CA) focuses on the procedural analysis of talk-in interaction‚ how participants systematically organise their interactions to solve a range of organisational problems‚ such as the distribution of turns at talking‚ the collaborative production of particular actions‚ or problems of understanding. The analysis is always based
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Sack study (1974) which indicated that among various form of interactions‚ turn taking procedures might differ. As shown in his studies of courtrooms‚ classroom and news-interview. This study is dealing with the problem of context and categorization because the use of turn taking whether it is distinctive or normatively sanctioned‚ it indicates the participants’ pervasive orientation to particular social context and identities
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at variance with the ABA standard: "The mediator shall not voluntarily disclose information obtained through the mediation process without the prior consent of both participants" (Advocacy and Mediation‚ 1992). Article Two – Four Tricks That Make Mediation Work Most litigations end at the mediation table‚ rather than in the courtroom. “Most lawsuits settle before judgment‚ and increasingly litigants are turning to mediation—negotiation assisted by a third-party facilitator —to resolve their disputes”
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PROCEDURAL LAW COMMON LAW AND EQUITY THE COMMON LAW SYSTEM OF EARLY ENGLAND - one who believes he has a legal claim brings a cause of action in court (vložitev tožbe‚ s katero se sproži pravda) - he is seeking some form of relief‚ remedy (zadoščenje) - remedy is supposed to cure or satisfy his claim of harm or injury (terjatev za škodo ali poškodbo) - in the beginning only certain forms of action were recognized by the law courts - a claim had to fit one of recognized forms
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A jury is a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence provided in a court of law by both parties. This verdict is given by the foreman who is appointed by other members of the jury. Other duties of the foreman involve asking questions on behalf of the jury and facilitating jury discussions. The verdict given by the foreman can be either guilty or not guilty as there is no such verdict as “innocent” and this is given after the hearing of the evidence. The size of the
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