Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Roles and Responsibilities of the Legal Personnel within the English Legal System
- Role of Lawyers
- Criminal
- Solictitors
- Barristers
- Legal excutives
- Paralegals
- Legal service ombudsman
- Civil
- solictors
- Barristers
- Paralegals
- legal excutives
- legal service ombudsman
- Role of Judges
- Criminal
- Type of Judges
- Justices of supreme court
- These are judges in the
Supreme Court
- They hear around
70 cases per
anunum
- They deal with cases where
people believe that their human
rights have been breached
- They deal with both
criminal and civil cases
- They will usually sit in a panel of 5 however in
rare occasions they will sit in a panel of 7. This
happened in 1993 when a case between teachers
and a tax collector was brought to court. In the
re-examination 7 judges were present on the
panel for the PEPPER v HART case.
- Every ruling that supreme judges
make have the ability to change the
laws of the land.
- Supreme court judges
may review the case
- They are highly
qualified
- Justice of appeal
- These are judges for the
Court of Appeal
- There are 37 judges in
the Court of Appeal
and they deal with
both criminal and civil
divisions
- Compared to the Supreme Court
they have a significantly heavier
workload. They hear around 48
hundred cases annually
- They will usally
sit in a panel of 3
but in important
cases they will sit
in a panel of 5
- They will also deal with
appeals from the lower courts
- They are legally
qualified
- Puisne judges
- They are the judges for the High
Court (Queens Bench Division)
- There are 72
appointed judges
in the Queens
Bench division
- Each judge is
assigned to a division
- They are legally
quailfied
- Circuit judges
- These are the
judges for Crown
Court
- Most cases in crown
court are heard by
circuit judges
- They can either specialise
in one of the three
divisions or they can
seperate their time
between the three
- Family
- Criminal
- Civil
- Some cases are
forwarded from
Magistrates court if the
judge believes that they
do not have the power to
deal with the case or if the
defendant has decided
that they want to have a
trail infront of the jury
- They are legally qualified
- District judges
- These are judges in
the Magistrates court
- They support lay
magistrates in
Magistrates Court
- They are
legally
qualified
judges
- They are
full-time
salaried judges
- It's their job to
help/advise the
lay magistrate
judge of the law
- They generally deal with
more complex cases in
Magistrates Court
- Recorders
- These are also judges
of the Crown Court
- They deal with less
completed or serious
cases in crown court
- They
are fee
paid
- They are legally
qualified
- Lay Magistrate
- They are the only judges
that have not legally
qualified
- They rule over the magistrates
court with the assistance of district
judge
- They live locally and
work part-time
- They are un-paid
- Their appointments
- Powers
- Lay Magistrates and District Judges have limited amount of power
they are only able to deal with minor crimes such as petty theft and
un-paid parking fines. They are able to sentence up to 6 months
imprisonment,community service and/or a fine up to £5000
- Jurisdictions
- Civil
- Their appontments
- Jurisdictions
- Types of judges
- Powers