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The Civil Courts 🚙💥 Flashcards

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What are the three tracks of the civil court structure ? Who are they heard by?

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Small tracks claim- under £10 000- not expected to raise any difficult questions of law (personal insurance claims up too £1000 - heard by district judge )

Fast Track - £10000- £25000 trial - not a s long as one day - heard by circuit judge

Multi track - case involves a large sum of money over £25 000 raising difficult points in law heard by circuit or high court judge

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What are the civil courts of first instance ?

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Mag
County
High court

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What are the high courts split into ? 4)

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The chancery division
The kings bench division
Family division
The technology and construction court

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What is a litigation ?

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When you have a legal problem TAHT goes to court

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What are the 4 advantages of litigation ?

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Get legal outcome
Creates precedent - fairness and equality
Can win and get competition
Can appeal

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What’s re the disadvantages of litigation ?

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Expensive - paying for lawyers fee
Can take time for a case to go to court
Inflexible
Court case can be public

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What is there as an alternative for for litigation other than courts ?

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Alternative dispute resolution ADR

Arbitration
Mediation
Conciliation

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What kind of offence is murder ?

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Common law defence - LJ coke

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What is the definition of murder?

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Defined as any unlawful killing of any reasonable person under the kings peace with malice a forethought expressed or implied

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What is the actus reus of the definition of murder ? Mens rea ?

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Actus reus - The unlawful killing of a reasonable person in being under the kings peace

Mens rea - With malice aforethought expressed or implied

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What is the actus reas under murder ?

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1) we need to see if there was an unlawful killing no legal justification - LJ - self defence + medical ( Airdlale v Bland )

Necessity - Re A - conjoined twins no defence

2) there needs to be a killing - act or ommison - death occurs when Brain stem dead ( R v Gibbons + Proctor ) (R v Inglis) (R v Malchrek + steel )

3) Reasonable person in being - has to be independent of mother - AG ref 3 of 1994

4) killing must be under the kings peace - not in war

5) causation factual - but for - R V White
Legal causation - Operating cause + substantive ( R vSmith )

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What is the mens rea of murder ?

What is the extra rule ?

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Intent to kill someone and cause serious harm - ( R v Vickers )

If we can’t find a direct intent - then we can look at oblique - virtual certainly test - R V Woolin

If so D appreciated such was the case - R v Matthews LJ and Allegne

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What is negotiation ?

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The direct communication between parties face to face or via email

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What is the procedure for negotiation?

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Each side State position giving little ground until a compromise is met
To help concentrate on problems rather than personalities

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What is negotiation based on ? What can an unscrupulous negotiator do?

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Power - whether latest offer is better or worst
Unscrupulous negotiator can take an unfair advantage if any weaknesses are know

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Who is involved in negaotation?

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Judge claimant and defence

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What are the positives of negotiation?

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Allows a win win outcome
Flexible - can be informal - power to claimant and def
Allows Private negotiation -
Cheaper and quicker

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What are some negatives to negotiation?

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Scrupulous negotiator
Imbalance of power - one side may have lawyers
Lack of control

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What does expeditiously and fairly mean?

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Deals with litigation or dispute quickly or fairly showing justice through no strict rule

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What is mediation?

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An impartial 3rd party acts as a mediator not imposing any decision but encouraging discussion

21
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What are some cases dealt with mediation?

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The family law act 1996 - family mediation

Commercial mediation
Community mediation - free for all residents
Special needs or exclusion

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Who is involved within mediation ?

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May have legal representative- mediator and 2 parties

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What is the procedure of mediation ?

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Can be private
1) initial meeting each party puts out position
Private meeting with mediator for each side
Second plenary meeting - face to face

Confidential and rarely witnesses are involved

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What happens if an agreement cannot be made with mediation ?

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Case Can be taken to court or tribunal

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What are the positives and negatives of mediation and conciliation?

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Adv - Cheaper and quicker
Face to face - communication
Held improve relationships through reducing conflict
Knowledgeable third party
Confidential
Disadvantages- not legally binding
May fail to come to agreement so other experts may be used - waste of time
Imbalance of power

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What is a Conciliator?

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They are more proactive than a mediator give their own opinions and state how court will with the litigation

However they are still a neutral party 

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What are some examples of conciliation?

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ACAS - Deals with unfair dismissal
Conciliation disability service

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Who is
involved within conciliation ?

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A conciliator with two parties that have used the representative

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What is the process of Conciliation?

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Conciliator meets The two parties and they tell their dispute - conciliator gives opinion and suggestions on how they can resolve - leads To a legally enforceable agreement

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What is arbitration?

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When both parties decide to submit their claims and someone will decide the outcome of the case other than a judge

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Who would arbitrator be?

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Someone with legal specialist knowledge

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What is private arbitration governed by?

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The arbitration act 1976

33
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What kind of disputes are dealt with in arbitration?

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Consumer contacts and trade

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Who is involved within arbitration?

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The private arbitrator with legal specialist knowledge and the two parties

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What is the process of arbitration

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Arbitration is free but private arbitrator may charge

time in date is made by both parties

paper arbitration- claims are written on paper and the arbitrator read it out and make the decision - award

binding to both parties and can be legally enforceable

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What are the positives and negatives of arbitration?

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Positives - win-win outcome
flexible both parties can pick time and day
it’s private And confidential
face-to-face builds relationships

Negative - imbalance of power
no time limit
lack of control
if unable to find a resolution have to use experts - more expensive 

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Why were tribunal made?

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There was a large group in law which led to a large amount of disputes being raised - Courts cannot deal with such a high volume so tribunal were formed

38
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What must be heard by tribunal?

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Cases 

39
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Give two examples of tribunals?

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Employment appeals tribunal

Land chambers 

40
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What was the whole tribunal system set up by?

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Tribunal court and enforcement act 2008

41
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What are domestic tribunal set up by

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Professional bodies eg. bar council 

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Who is involved in Tribunals ?

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Legally qualified tribunal judge and two lay people with knowledge around the field of tribunal

Chairperson with expertise

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What is the process of tribunals?

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Every tribunal is different so it doesn’t have a set time but witnesses and people give evidence and Are questioned

decided on its merits not bound to strict rules 

44
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What are the positives of tribunals?

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Allows parties to speak face-to-face

legally binding

flexible as parties can set a the date and time around them

formal

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What are the negatives of tribunals ?

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Can be time-consuming
lack of government funding
experts can be bias
imbalance of power as those made of thoes can have solicitors and others

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