Describe the role of magistrates in civil and criminal cases A Lay- person in the context of a lay magistrate is a person with no legal qualifications or training in law. Their purpose is to provide experience of society and ensure that the common people’s values are represented when delivering a verdict. Most magistrates are lay magistrates and they are also referred to as justices of the peace. There are roughly 30‚000 lay magistrates sitting on the bench and they usually sit in threes but section
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There are a few differences in civil and criminal cases. One is that they both are offensive to groups‚ Although separate ones. Through they’re both different in terms of punishment‚ both will almost always include them if found guilty and they both use standards of proof to find so. Some civil cases allow for trials by jury. A defendant is allowed to use attorneys in both cases. The differences outweigh the similarities. First off‚ civil crimes relate to disputes between individuals while crimes
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important to know the difference between your civil liberties and your civil rights. Knowledge is power and knowing your rights is important for the protection of your own rights and respect for the rights of others around you; if you don’t stand up for yourself and know your own right then who will? But first to understand what the difference between these two essential parts of our overall freedom and everyday lives‚ we must distinguish and understand what they are individually. Civil liberties are defined
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Student Handout 3.1 - The Difference Between Civil Law and Criminal Law When is a legal problem criminal and when is it civil? What difference does it make whether it is criminal or civil? One way of looking at criminal law is that it is dealing with something of public interest. For example‚ the public has an interest in seeing that people are protected from being robbed or assaulted. These are legal problems that fall into the criminal law. Criminal law involves punishing and rehabilitating
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but some were not. Do you know the difference between Civil Liberties and Civil Rights? Do you even know what they are? These two types of guaranteed rights are something citizens should know the difference between. With these rights we have there are some limits to how we can use them. First‚ Civil Liberties guarantee freedoms to an individual that limit what the government can do. For example‚ Civil Liberties can be something from the Bill of Rights. Second‚ Civil Rights guarantee privileges for
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Movies that are "based on actual events" are usually not the same as the real events upon which they are based. "A Civil Action" is one of these movies. The basic points covered in the movie are the same. However there were some key elements from the trial left out of the movie. These elements were some of the crucial errors made by Schlichtmann that led to him losing the case. The basic main events are the same as they were portrayed in the movie. The trial did last for 78 days in which the verdict
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The Civil Action (1988) is film that based on a true story of an environmental lawsuit‚ which took place in Woburn‚ Mass. In this movie‚ Jan Schlittman‚ a personal injury lawyer‚ agrees to represent a group of families whose children died from leukemia after a large corporation carelessly deposed toxic chemicals damaged the water supply for Woburn‚ Mass. This case becomes Jan’s obsession‚ even to the extent that he is willing to give up everything. When we look at the case in ethical way‚ we can
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Over 20 million people toured Chicago during the six months that the fair took place. Supplies and strangers spilled in and out of the city‚ leaving the police distracted and unable to keep up with the sudden burst of criminal activity. Holmes and Pitezel hired single woman as maids and secretaries‚ promising them life insurance policies. Pitezel believed that they were simply scamming the insurance companies as the beneficiary of the woman’s policies‚ but Holmes was actually
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A Civil Action Legal Terms 1. Settlements a. A settlement is an agreement that both parties have come to decide on without the need of going through court litigation b. In this movie‚ before the case was introduced introduced into court and defendants came up with a 2 million dollar settlement. 2. Lawsuit a. a lawsuit is a court process at law or in equity to determine the legal merits of a controversy. b. In this movie Schlictman tries to sue a leather company for the wrongful
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Describe the differences between local and overseas bodybuilding competition First of all‚ the history of building competition between local and overseas is totally different. In 1904‚ the first large-scale bodybuilding competition held at Madison Square in New York. In 1944‚ the first bodybuilding competition named Shanghai men’s bodybuilding competition held in Shanghai YMCA auditorium. It is the first bodybuilding competition held in China. It shows that the history of overseas bodybuilding
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