What If You Were Boss The judicial courts is one of the most difficult undertaking out of all the judicial system. Even though law enforcement officers apprehend offenders‚ it is still up to the prosecutors to retrieve and analyze all evidence from the scene of the crime that the officers collected‚ so that they can compile a case against the defendant. Then there is the defense also gathering information to make a case to prove the defendant is innocent. Now if I was the boss for the day I would
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Question(A) JUDICIAL PRECEDENT Judicial Precedent is a decision of the court used as a source for future decision making. In Judicial Precedent the decision made in superiors are binding on subsequent cases in lower courts on the same or similar facts. The doctrine of judicial Precedent did not become fully established until the second half of the nineteenth century. In the Common law Courts in the United Kingdom the procedure was to apply the theory of the common law‚ which as simply
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Legislative professionalism is the amount of work and time put into a legislature’s job. This includes the hours‚ whether it is full time or part time; the salary‚ whether it is volunteer or just enough money to live on; and the staff‚ whether there is a full staff or no staff. Usually legislatures with higher professionalism work full time‚ have a salary that he/she can survive on‚ and is well staffed. In Virginia‚ legislatures receive less than $20‚000 which leads to the belief that their job
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2. Describe how these three branches are supposed to interact. The three forms of government‚ the Legislative‚ the Executive‚ and the Judicial branches interact with each other through the system called‚ check and balance. Check and balance allow the feral branches to check on one another to ensure that each branch has equal power over their citizens’ rights. This eliminates a branch from consuming too much power and becoming more dominant than the other branches. Each Branch is given their own specific
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Constitution affords certain authorities to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although many are specifically spelled out‚ one that is not‚ is the use of executive actions‚ through executive orders and memorandums. These actions have been used for varying reasons by almost every President of the United States. Of late‚ many of these orders issued by President Obama and President Trump have been viewed as an attempt to bypass the legislative power of Congress. At times‚ though‚ these
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sufficient similarity. The doctrine of judicial precedent involves an application of the principle of stare decisis i.e.‚ to stand by the decided. In practice‚ this means that inferior courts are bound to apply the legal principles set down by superior courts in earlier cases. This provides consistency and predictability in the law. RATIO DECIDENDI AND OBITER DICTUM The decision or judgement of a judge may fall into two parts: the ratio decidendi (reason for the decision) and obiter dictum (something
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That time has finally come due to the fact that the federal government of the United States is being supported with three equal branches which are the executive‚ the legislature‚ and the judiciary. They saw the circumstances which is by England’s official and decided to construct a different kind of government which the government could not overpower the people of the United States. Also‚ the U.S. Constitution had created a central government which has the power to enforce laws and not
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System (CJS) consists of three interconnected branches that rely on communication and collaborative efforts to function and meet the needs of society. The three CJS branches of law enforcement‚ courts‚ and corrections can appear autonomous but it is common for all three branches to share responsibilities and rely on information collected from various areas of the CJS. Some examples of necessary collaboration and communication situations between CJS branches include legal searches‚ investigations‚ and
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In recent years judicial selection has become an issue of great debate with many different views and ways to make it better. In Texas‚ judicial selection is carried out by partisan elections where voters get to choose the judges and justices. This form of judicial selection has many advantages as well as some disadvantages. One advantage of judicial selection by election is that it gives the voters the power in the selection. This allows Texans to be sure that the selection process is kept “…out
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DOCTRINE OF PRECEDENT - LAW MAKING POTENTIAL More Judicial Precedent Resources: Judicial Precedent - Lecture Notes #1 THE JUDGES’ ROLE IN PRECEDENT The old view of the judges’ role was that they were merely ’declaring’ the existing law (the ’declaratory theory’). Lord Esher stated in Willis v Baddeley [1892] 2 QB 324: "There is ... no such thing as judge-made law‚ for the judges do not make the law‚ though they frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not
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