Courts

Question 1

What are the two classifications of courts in the UK?

Answer 1

1. Criminal and Civil courts
2. Trial and appellate courts

Question 2

Criminal Courts

Answer 2

determine the guilt or innocence of defendants according to the parameters of the criminal law and dispense punishment to convicted offenders.

Question 3

Civil Courts

Answer 3

primarily deal with the resolution of disputes between individuals and award appropriate remedies to successful claimants. these remedies are normally in the form of monetary damages

Question 4

What tpye of court is the Crown court?

Answer 4

exclusively criminal matters

Question 5

what type of court is the county court

Answer 5

exclusively a civil court

Question 6

Trial Court

Answer 6

hears cases at ‘first instance’ This refers to the first time that a case is heard in court, before any appeals. they consider the matters of fact and law in the case and make an appropriate ruling.

Question 7

appellate courts

Answer 7

consider the application of legal principles to a case that has already been heard at first instance. Some appellate courts also have jurisdiction to reconsider disputed issues of a fact.

Question 7

Court of Appeal

Answer 7

the highest of the senior courts including the high court and the crown court). Does not hear witness byt considers legal argument

Question 8

Supreme Court

Answer 8

final court of appeal for al UK civil and criminal cases. 12 judges with a president and Deputy President (Justices of the supreme court). they do not hear from witness rather legal argument and documentary evidence

Question 8

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Answer 8

deals with appeals from the three division of the High Court, the county court and certain tribunals.

Question 9

Court of Appeal (criminal division)

Answer 9

has an entirely appellate jurisdiction and mainly deals with appeals from the Crown Court against conviction, sentence, or a finding of fact.

Question 10

High Court

Answer 10

is one court divided into three division for administrative purposes.

Question 11

The Queens bench division

Answer 11

hears criminal appeals from magistrates court by way of case states and from the Crown Court sitting without a jury.

Question 12

Judicial Review

Answer 12

the procedure by which, on the apllication of an individual, the courts may determine whether a public body has acted lawfully.

Question 13

Chancery division

Answer 13

deals with buisnesss and propety-related disputes

Question 14

Family division

Answer 14

has inherent jurisdictions to deal with cases where a child who is the sbject of legal proceedings must be protected.

Question 15

Crown court

Answer 15

The Crown Court is the criminal court of first instance in England and Wales responsible for hearing all indictable offences, some either way offences and appeals of the decisions of magistrates’ courts. It is one of three Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Question 16

County Court

Answer 16

deals with all but the most cimplicated civil law matters.

Question 17

Family Court

Answer 17

has jurisdction in all family proceedings

Question 18

Magistrates Court

Answer 18

all criminal proceedings being in the magistratrtes court and well over 90 percent end there.

In England and Wales, a magistrates’ court is a lower court which hears matters relating to summary offences and some triable either-way matters. Some civil law issues are also decided here, notably family proceedings.

Question 19

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Answer 19

the court of final appeal for the UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies.

Question 20

Tribunals

Answer 20

An alternate to traditional courts

Question 21

The European Court of Human Rights

Answer 21

established in 1959 as a final avenue of complaint for claimants who had exhausted the remedies available the them in their domestic courts for alleges breaches of convention rights.