Judicial Affidavit Rule: Three reforms to speed up justice To speed up the delivery of justice‚ three significant reforms were instituted recently: (1) the “Judicial Affidavit Rule‚” (2) the filling up of all judicial vacancies‚ and (3) the stabilization of judicial compensation. Judicial affidavit. To ease case congestion and minimize delays in the trial courts‚ the Supreme Court promulgated on Sept. 4 (to take effect on Jan. 1‚ 2013) the Judicial Affidavit Rule. Under this new system sponsored
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Q Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) offers all the advantages of the federal judicial system and then some. Along with fixed rules and the possibility of appeal‚ it allows for speed‚ confidentiality‚ cost efficiency‚ customized resolutions‚ and enforceability. These make ADR a good arbitration option for a whole range of complex commercial cases like securities‚ professional malpractice‚ patent litigation‚ personal injury litigation and bankruptcy mediation. Bankruptcy mediation works for
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PRECEDENT SETTING CASE CLN 4U0 The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884)‚ 14 Q.B.D. 273 Court of Queen’s Bench‚ England Facts: Thomas Dudley‚ Edward Stephens‚ and the deceased‚ a boy between seventeen and eighteen years of age‚ were set adrift in a lifeboat during a storm on the high seas 1000 miles from the nearest land. They had neither food nor water to subsist upon. For twenty days‚ they managed to survive by catching and eating a turtle and drinking rain water caught in their oilskin
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A) What Branch did you chose and why? Is it true that the Judiary Branch is the most inferior branch? Some are baffled by such statements and others agree with it. Despite one’s personal opinions‚ the Judicial Branch plays a major role in the democracy we live in today. The Judicial branch was the last of the 3 branches designed into the United States government. This branch along with the legislative and executive branch replaced the Articles of Confederation indefinitely. The judiary branch is
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Washington established precedents that would shape and define the future of the Executive Branch. His precedents defined the role of government and the image the people had of the presidency. In this essay I will discuss four precedents that I believe to be the most important and influential to the presidency of America. The first precedent I believe to be important is the organization of the Executive Branch. Washington relied on the advice of the department heads. This set the precedent of including the
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day‚ fall short of the equal and just trials that we claim they uphold. A great majority of people‚ especially during the 1800s - 1900s‚ considered the court and judicial system a higher power that always knew what to do. Since they decide whether or not someone is guilty or innocent of crimes‚ they
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Martin Partington‚ when writing about the Criminal cases Review Commission‚ declared that “One of the most serious challenges facing the criminal justice system is ensuring that miscarriages of justice do not occur”‚ (Partington‚ Introduction to the English Legal System‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2012/13 (7th ed.) at page 135. Critically consider the proposition that the Criminal cases Review Commission is routinely failing innocent people wrongly convicted of serious crimes and should‚ in the
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& disadvantages of following the practice of precedent in a legal sense. Answer:- The doctrines of binding precedent is concerned with the importance of case laws in English legal system. If one case has decided a point of law then it is logical that solution will be looked at in the future. The American Judge‚ Oliver Wendell said ‘the life of the law has not been logic it has been experience’‚ Miles Kingston put it another way: binding precedent means ‘A trick which has been tried before successfully’
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helped to change how America is today by giving women more rights‚ citizens having more voting rights‚ giving suspects of crimes more rights and giving people more rights. Some other examples of what Burger was able to do as Chief Justice were giving criminal defendants more rights and for minorities he was able to prevent some of the racism that came from the desegregation of schools. Burger was able to give all types of Americans more rights based on the Supreme Court cases that were seen while the
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Earth.” This quote describes how the current-day government was made for the people by ordinary citizens‚ and that’s why it functions so well and shouldn’t be demolished. The Executive Branch should not abolish either the Legislative Branch or the Judicial Branch because it would mean a complete loss of public representation for the people. In addition‚ a reasonable division of power invested amongst the different parts of the government to secure a system of checks & balances would also be non-existent
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