Post on 15-Jan-2015
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Role of a Magistrates
Court
Advantages of Lay
magistrates
Disadvantages of lay
magistrates
Jury selection
Qualifications of Jury?
Advantages & Disadvantages
of the jury
Appeals from a
magistrates court
What is the role of a
Youth Court?
What are the advantages of using a
jury?
A case to show how the jury
are sometimes wrong in their
verdicts
Appeals from the Crown Court?
Process of a small claims
case
What are the Woolf Reforms?
Act that created the 3 track civil procedure?
What are the 3 tracks of Civil
claims and which court are they
heard?
Role of the High Court?And it’s 3 divisions?
Name 1 type of ADR and discuss it’s effectivenes
s
What Act of Parliament
controls legal aid?
What is the training
route for a barrister?
What are the key differences
between a solicitor and a
barrister?
What is an advocacy
certificate?
What is the cab rank
rule?
Explain Alternative Business
Structures
What is legal aid?
What is the role of the CLS & CDS?
How do conditiona
l fees work?
What is ADR?
Name one advantage &
one disadvantage of arbitration?
Describe powers of
police to arrest
Safeguards for public
Stop & Search??
Safeguards for public
Detention
Aims of sentencing
Adult custodial sentences
Community order
requirements
Youth Custodial Sentences
Youth NON custodial sentences
Advantages and disadvantages
of custodial sentences
Factors of Sentencing
Right to Bail
Factors to consider
Bail
Conditional Bail
Restrictions on Bail
Categories of offences
Triable either way procedure
Magistrate Court procedure NOT
guilty plea
Problems of using civil
courts