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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NOTES OF CASES THECASEOF THE SLIPPERY EQUITY IN Re Vandervell’s Trusts (No. 2)‚’ Lord Denning M.R. said: “ (‘ Hard cases make bad law ’) is a maxim which is quite misleading. It should be deleted from our vocabulary. It comes to this: ‘Unjust decisions make good law’: whereas they do nothing of the kind. Every unjust decision is a reproach to the law or to the judge who administers it.”a Now that it has been decided that there is to be no appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal‚ it is worth
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What is the importance of the rule of law and Judicial independence in British government? The rule of law in its most basic form is simply the principle that no-one is above the law. This ultimately means that‚ when combined with an independent judiciary‚ the law will be applied fairly to everyone in the area where that law is sovereign. In the U.K there have been many major developments in the Rule of Law and keeping the judiciary independent in order to keep the maximum level of justice‚ the
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The former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger who served from 1969-1986 and was the 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Burger was nominated in 1969 by President Richard Nixon to replace former Chief Justice Earl Warren. During his 17 years that he served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States‚ Burger helped make decisions on many Supreme Court cases during the time of the Burger Court. Burger’s work has changed how the judiciary system now works and changed many
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Perdido 1 William Perdido September 25‚ 2012 Pd 2 Impact of Low-Income Household and School Community on Students: Implication and Remedies Growing up without parents is challenging. It is just like a ship navigating without a compass; however‚ it is even more challenging to grow up in abusive house. Not only will this affect both your personal growth and development as a child‚ but your academic performance and career perspective. For example‚ according to the book Social Animal
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With the creation of the three branches‚ Legislative‚ Executive‚ and Judicial‚ the Constitution also created checks and balances‚ the capability for each branch to check the power of the others. To ensure the continuing proficiency of our democratic nation and "checks and balances" system‚ it is crucial to equalize the branches by separating‚ and equally distributing power among the three branches. However‚ before 1803‚ the judicial branch was lacking such said power over the legislative and executive
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University of Cambridge Faculty of law Tripos INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Breach of Confidence/Trade Secrets Lionel Bently March 10 & March11‚ 2011: The Basics April 28: Employees May 2: Privacy and Publicity March 7 and 11‚ 2011 BREACH OF CONFIDENCE: THE BASICS Bently & Sherman (3d ed)‚ 1003-1066 ***Coco v Clark [1969] RPC 41 *A-G v Guardian (No.2) [1988] 3 All ER 545 **Campbell v MGN [2004] 2 AC 457 **Douglas v Hello [2008] 1 AC 1‚ 45-50 (paras 108-28 per
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Aristotle? American democracy‚ primarily the American judicial systems was formed on the belief of justice. What is justice? How does Aristotle’s ideas on justice relate to the American Judicial system? The approach taken in this paper will focus on the similarities and differences between the two. Using Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to discuss the relationship‚ this paper with show the ideas and procedures used to this day in our American Judicial System. Justice is a hard word to define. Each
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Judicial Precedent is the way that English Common Law has evolved since the time of Henry II when courts were unified into a national system‚ making it common throughout England. Integral to it is the Latin phrase ‘stare decisis’ which literally means ‘to stand by what has been decided’. Its meaning in the case of judicial precedent is very similar‚ that a Judge will go by the same ruling as a previous judge has in the same cases; providing that the precedent comes from a higher or equal court‚ if
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Human Rights Act 1998 has impacted on the judicial understanding of precedent Human rights are inalienable rights in which people are conferred with by birth. The state being the guardian of such rights have an absolute obligation to protect the human rights. Prior to the Human Rights Act 1998‚ a Uk citizen who had a grievance of a violation of a human right‚ had to complain to the Euoropean Court of Human rights in order to obtain redress. Comparatively‚ it can be said that by the enactment of
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