PPT-JUDGES, JURIES, AND THE COURT SYSTEM

COURT SYSTEM The trial court system in the US is an adversarial system A contest between opposing sides or adversaries Plaintiff civil or prosecutor criminal vs the defendant COURT SYSTEM. Lecture 3:. policing . and prosecution . Next Week’s reading. Andrea McKenzie, ‘Martyrs in Low Life? Dying “Game” in Augustan England’, . Journal of British Studies. , Vol. 42 (2003), 167-205.. Need (Some) Academics. Professor Cheryl Thomas. Director, UCL Jury Project. Co-Director, UCL Judicial Institute. UCL Faculty of Laws. How the . Jury System . has . b. enefited from . academic . s. tudy. AS Law. Are juries representative of society?. Employment could jeopardise ability to decide case impartially. . R v . Abdroikov. (2007). Eligibility reforms by the CJA 2003 following the . Auld’s. . History. The jury has its roots in the middle ages. English judges used to assemble a group of knowledgeable people from the location where a crime happened to help identify who committed it.. . Advantages of Juries. Layman’s . equity . – jury acts as a . check on the power of Government . and . protects against unjust or oppressive prosecution . by . reflecting a community’s sense of justice. Hamish Thorburn. Criminal Courts in NSW. Trial delay in NSW. Trial delay: time between committal and finalisation in . the District . Court. Median trial delay has risen from 234 days in 2011 to 348 days in 2015. Tech Mahindra Limited v Commissioner of Taxation. Justice Jennifer Davies. IATJ . 7. th. Assembly. September 30. th. October 1. st. , 2016. Madrid, Spain. . International Association of Tax Judges. The . operation of the common law depends heavily on the expertise of the judge. .. He . or she must be able to identify and apply appropriate precedents to match the facts of the case being heard, and also to . He . gave them into the hands of the . Midianites. . . Romans 6:16. Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?. Basic Facts. Only court set up by the Constitution.. Consists of 9 Justices. One Chief Justice . Eight Associates. President Appoints, Senate Confirms. Term. Supreme Court works 9 months/year.. Begins 1. GENERAL ASSUMPTION. There was an exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.. GENERAL CONCEPTIONS. 1. From the details in Joshua 2-12 we get the impression that the conquest of Canaan was swift and decisive.. CONFLICT AND CRISIS: THE JUDGES Lesson 4 for January 23, 2016 DEBORAH “Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.” (Judges 4:4 ) The pattern of the Cosmic Conflict is repeatedly found in Judges. The story in Judges 4 is an example of that: Montenegro, . Experience of Evaluation Panel. The reasons for . establishment . of . the . system . for . evaluation of judges. In . the practice of Montenegro so far, there has been no . system . for . Nick Booth. Policy Advisor for Rule of Law and Access to Justice. UNDP Viet Nam. 23 November 2012. Source material:. Survey report on local court governance in Viet Nam . (NH Quang and Associates, 2012).