In my opinion the purpose of the legal system involves many things. The legal system provides everyone a fair and equal trail in the eyes of the law without prejudice. You are innocent until proven guilty and judged by a jury of your peers. The legal system helps to derive, enact, and enforce laws to protect society and ensure domestic tranquility. Victims can get the justice they deserve when someone disrupts their daily lives and generates physical, mental, and/or emotional pain. The Legal Studies Academy at First Colonial High School will teach me things I never knew and help me to become the best lawyer I can be.
To begin, without the legal system and laws, criminals could get away with whatever they wanted and there would be absolute chaos. Without the legal system many people would be harmed and there would be no formal control or authoritative order. An instance of this, if you saw a bike and desired it, you could steal it and no one would care. Also, if you disliked someone, you could hurt them, or worse, kill them. Since there wouldn’t be any laws against it, it wouldn’t hold any relevance to anyone and you would escape without concern or impugn. Many would be stolen from, injured, and even murdered. We have laws in place to protect us. We need laws to sustain social cohesion. This way, we can live together with cities, communities, and other societies. If you break laws, you are harming another person. Whether it is in privacy, property, physical or mental abuse, or whatever it may be, it is breaking the law. When you harm another, you are taking away their right to pursue happiness and other rights and liberties entitled to them. Consequently, when we break laws, we are to be punished, fairly, for the law we have ...
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...t until proven guilty, which makes it fair. The legal system helps to issue, make, and impose laws to protect society and guarantee domestic peace. Someone who is the victim of a crime of assault in any way, being mental, physical, or emotional, can get the justice they deserve for the pain they had. I will learn many things and learn to be the best lawyer I can be, if I am able to attend the Legal Studies Academy at First Colonial High School.
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Since the dawn of time for a society to work it needs to have a level of structure that applies to everyone and is understood by everyone. Australian legal system is broad and complex. It is the nature of the encompassing laws and regulations which reflect how people, organisations and governments behave on the many different levels of operation and these are created to make sure that everyone understands their rights and obligations. There are two sources of Law in Australia: Statute Law regulated by Parliament and comprise of legislations and acts; and Judge-made Law or Common Law where decisions made by judges are based on previous cases.
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Attorneys ensure that society has a place to seek and obtain justice, giving confidence that restitution and retribution can occur within the law. Attorneys have a difficult job. They must know the laws like they know the back of their hands. Attorneys attend school just as long or even longer than most doctors. They have the difficult job of defending their clients or prosecuting the bad guys.
The criminal justice system is composed of three parts – Police, Courts and Corrections – and all three work together to protect an individual’s rights and the rights of society to live without fear of being a victim of crime. According to merriam-webster.com, crime is defined as “an act that is forbidden or omission of a duty that is commanded by public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law.” When all the three parts work together, it makes the criminal justice system function like a well tuned machine.
The criminal justice system views any crime as a crime committed against the state and places much emphasis on retribution and paying back to the community, through time, fines or community work. Historically punishment has been a very public affair, which was once a key aspect of the punishment process, through the use of the stocks, dunking chair, pillory, and hangman’s noose, although in today’s society punishment has become a lot more private (Newburn, 2007). However it has been argued that although the debt against the state has been paid, the victim of the crime has been left with no legal input to seek adequate retribution from the offender, leaving the victim perhaps feeling unsatisfied with the criminal justice process.
The English legal system is complex and there are many ways in which it can be influenced, this essay will explore some of the different, more obvious ways the law can be changed and what this shows in relation to the quote above. First the essay will discuss the different ways the law can be created and changed and who enables and controls those changes, with my primary examples being the common law and legislation for the judicracy and Parliament respectively, then the essay will cover to what extent these powers enable the judicracy to change and create law in relation to Parliament and if it could be discribed as "opportunistic and piecemeal".
Everyone deserves to have equal access to fair treatment along with quality representation. Going to law school will give me the fundamental knowledge and access to impact the legal process in a positive way. As a child I do not believe any of my classmates in any grade level thought about being an Attorney, Police Officer, Fireman, or anything dealing with Law Enforcement. Those professions seem to be out of reach while I was growing up. Sadly those dreams eluded me until later in life. My Father was one of the leaders of the Philadelphia Black Mafia Family so my interaction with justice as a child was not a positive one. Sadly my Father was following in the direct footsteps of his Father and for certain periods of my life I did the same. Responsibility was a trait that escaped me until a handful of years back. I treated everything and everyone in my life carelessly. I was careless with my finances, personal relationships with love ones, and careless in the way I conducted myself. I did not have any respect or regard for myself or anyone else for that matter and my life was severely damaged due to my lack of care. Not only my personal life was severely impacted but collaterally my Military life and career was as
This essay will define the role of the courts system provide some history of the courts highlight the various types of courts.with outline of civil and criminal courts and supreme courts. Pages to follow will establish the jurisdiction and hierarchy. Evalutate the advantages and disadvantages of using The jury system. With final piece to provide a conclusion
Laws serve several purposes in the criminal justice system. The main purpose of criminal law is to protect, serve, and limit human actions and to help guide human conduct. Also, laws provide penalties and punishment against those who are guilty of committing crimes against property or persons. In the modern world, there are three choices in dealing with criminals’ namely criminal punishment, private action and executive control. Although both private action and executive control are advantageous in terms of costs and speed, they present big dangers that discourage their use unless in exceptional situations. The second purpose of criminal law is to punish the offender. Punishing the offender is the most important purpose of criminal law since by doing so; it discourages him from committing crime again while making him or her pay for their crimes. Retribution does not mean inflicting physical punishment by incarceration only, but it also may include things like rehabilitation and financial retribution among other things. The last purpose of criminal law is to protect the community from criminals. Criminal law acts as the means through which the society protects itself from those who are harmful or dangerous to it. This is achieved through sentences meant to act as a way of deterring the offender from repeating the same crime in the future.