and the culpable are without set. General supposition has similarly been considered as a genuine piece of parts that have influenced the operations of the system (Crow and Johnson, 2008). The courts are defied with a troublesome equality to perform. While they are not controlled by open feeling, the courts should in like manner not lose the sureness of the masses. A curious reluctance exists, especially among lawyers, in introducing the hypothetical underpinnings of the criminal value system to…
hit his head. From Doomadgee’s coronation report, the reason for his ruptured liver and four broken ribs can only be justified by an extensive force being applied to his chest or stomach region. Furthermore, the film uses archival footage from the court case to express that Hurley is guilty. The Tall Man, uses a range of film techniques effectively to intensify the experience for the audience. Krawitz uses close- up shots during personal interviews to express their raw emotions further. When…
There is a case about the freedom of movement. In the case of Government of Malaysia & Ors v Loh Wai Kong , Loh was a permanent resident of Australia. He returned to Malaysia in April 1975, and was charged with a criminal offense in the High Court at Ipoh on 2 August 1976. Loh obtained bail on condition that he surrenders his passport. On 2 March 1977, his passport expired, and Loh had it returned. He later applied for a new passport, citing the need to return to Australia by 1978, or his…
legal action in court (Collins Dictionaries 2011). The process of taking legal action involves the usage of language. Ordinary everyday language is adapted in many ways to form a sublanguage of legal language (Tiersma 2008). This is also known as legalese (Post 2015). Legalese is used in all aspects regarding the law and thus is used in court and by all court participants (Conley and O'Barr 2005). More often than not, some participants are not fluent in legalese and…
custody is a written account documentation which shows the custody, control, movement, transfer, analysis, and location of physical or electronic proof from the time it’s obtained until it is presented in the court of law. The evidence found at the crime scene must be presented in the court for further developments in the case. These evidences has to be validated and secured properly so that during the trial it will not be contaminated and the evidence is relevant to crime investigation. Chain…
One of the main topics that was displayed in the movie was conformity. Conformity can be described as the act of changing one’s behavior to fit in with a group (Crutchfield, 1955). After the closing arguments of the trial, deliberations by the jurors begin on whether the boy is guilty or not. As the jurors make themselves comfortable in the jury room, casual exchanges are made between the jurors. This is where the first step of conformity takes place. It is seen that juror #2 talks about how…
The jury system has been used for over two centuries to give an impartial trial for over countless cases. The court consists of six to twelve jurors, two lawyers, and a judge. This set of people has a duty to America to give fair trials to every case that goes through the system. As society and technology changes, people believe that the jury system should change along with it. With this, the jury system is considered an outdated system, but it has been successful since its creation to select an…
Judges’ Opinions about Adjudicative Competence” (Cox, 2012). The author focus on this research is to investigate whether the defendant’s ages and levels of psychosocial maturity would affect judge’s ratings of juveniles in a juvenile and criminal court (Cox, 2012). The method they use on this research they mail 48 judges from 25 states. The cases in which a state did not have more than 48 judges, all judges were recruited for participation (Cox, 2012). There was 342 participants 73.4% were men…
contempt of court to publish, without a court’s permission, a report of a private hearing which is under the Children Act 1989 or the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or which otherwise relate wholly or mainly to the maintenance or upbringing of a child. Relevantly, an example of a controversial case about reporting restrictions is the Re P (a child) case where, an Italian mother, who was pregnant was a resident in the UK and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. The Court of…
purpose of the court system is to help resolve problems fairly. It can consist of individuals vs. individuals or individuals vs. state. Therefore, the system allows everyone to bring their claims before the court whether they are the accused or the defendant. Within the court building, there are multiple court rooms where all the trials are heard. In addition, the court sometimes houses offenders in jail temporarily, for example overnight. The London police works hand in hand with the court in…