P2/P3:Explain the role of lawyers in criminal and civil cases
Solicitors
Solicitors give advice on areas of the law.Solicitors are the first people who are contacted when somebody or businesses are looking for legal advice or for them to be represented.Solicitors are normally within a team in firms owned by the solicitors.Some solicitors also work for the local government.Solicitors have to work their way up.
Solicitors are found in different areas of the law.Work which solicitors do is:
Meeting clients finding out what they require and helping them in some way
Carrying out research on relevant areas of the law and giving courses for clients
Drafting out contracts, letters and other legal documents which the client will require.Representing
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Whilst a solicitor can represent you in court he only has rights of representation in the magistrates court.In civil cases all repesentations are done by the barrister. So a solicitor can represent you is just as normal in other cases.The jobs of a solicitor are generally advising clients on their legal issues and contacting a barrister if necessary.SOlicitors also draft contracts and wills and generally do all the legal paper work.
What do barristers do in civil cases
During civil cases barristers and solicitors do the same job which is meeting with clients and discuss issues and points regarding the case.Barristers and solicitors also work together in civil cases to try and discuss what the outcome of the case will be.Barristers also be in court and try to back up they clients as much as they possibly can.
What do solicitors do in criminal cases
Solicitors represent their clients in court.It depends on what type of solictor they are defending or prosecuting solictor.Solictors will represent clients in the police station help them to get bail and then also stand up infront of magistartes to give they clients view either backing them up trying to get them prosecuted.Solictors will give evidence and advise to they clients to help them out with they case as much as they possibly
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There are particular tasks that have to be carried out with the legal professionals themselves, including negotiating with the other party, lawyers have to carry out research and find out relevant statistics related to the case they are relating
there are a truly incredible total number of various laws in our country and many different areas of the laws.. So many in fact, that there is not one single person who could possibly know all of them. Specialty courts are to the legal system as doctor specialists are to the medical system. The people in these courts know a lot within one certain area of the law.
The prosecution represents the state/the victims in criminal trials. A prosecutor’s responsibilities are to be professional, seek justice, and strive for the truth. Prosecutors live up to their responsibilities by gathering evidence, collecting witness testimonies, and obtaining other information to present a case against the defendant. Throughout the movie My Cousin Vinny, Jim Trotter is the prosecuting attorney. In the entire movie he is using evidence and witness testimonies to try to get the jury to find Billy Gambini and Stan Rothenstein guilty of killing the clerk in the store.
The defense attorney communicates with defendant about plea-bargaining, and assistance the defendant receives the correct plea-bargaining. The prosecutor is an individual who represents the government in a criminal or civil
I do not believe that only one lawyer should be assigned. Depending on the case, it might be very intricate. The one lawyer may not be able to everything that is needed to be done. Providing assistance to the lawyer may speed up the process and obtain all the information needed for the case. I also believe that the lawyer assigned also need to have the ability and skills needed to represent in the cases that are assigned.
Typical Civil Law cases or lawsuits fall under Tort Law, Family Law, Contract Law, Labour Law, and Property Law. The main purpose of Civil Law is to compensate for harm. It is usually in the form of damages and the money awarded to a plaintiff for harm, loss, or injury. In many cases, the legal system may choose to bring in alternate dispute resolutions that can help solve civil disputes without having a formal trial. One thing the Canadian legal system can bring in is mediation to help resolve the situation.
There are countless things social workers can do to address the oppression and discrimination seen in the criminal justice system. One that I feel is extremely crucial is being advocates for those individuals returning to society after being incarcerated. Social Workers should be there to help those individuals get back on their feet and help lessen the oppression and discrimination they can possibly receive. They can help these individuals find a job, a place to stay, and most of all help them get back on their feet.
1. Describe anticipatory empathy in your own words. In what situations have you made use of this skill before? How would you describe the relationship between anticipatory empathy and social justice work?
(John 7:51). The accused is charged and represented by a defense attorney who is responsible for advising the accused on what course of action to take. The accused
The first major court case to influence our treatment of juveniles today was the Kent v. United States. The case overall, made an impact on the treatment of juveniles today because now juveniles have a right to an attorney, the parents must be notified and either parents or a lawyer must be present during an interrogation, and juveniles must be reminded of his or her right to silence. The main thing that this case influenced was that courts must allow juveniles the right to defend themselves and to be heard when transferring a juvenile over to the adult system. A second major court case was In re Gault.
A Forensic psychologist help determine if the inmate has a mental illness by giving psychological test and evaluations. Forensic psychologist also help place and transfers inmates with a mentally illness. A Forensic psychologist also plays a key part in rehabilitation where they decided which rehabilitation to send the inmate to. Lastly, the Forensic psychologist will tell the treatment centers and or medical facilities what the mental diagnoses is, an idea of how to treat individuals, and what medication to give the
I will also provide detailed examples of each of those roles in action within the law enforcement, corrections and court system environments. The psychologist is vital in numerous exclusive roles in the criminal justice system. The psychologist can become the applied scientist, the basic scientist, the policy
1. A paralegal is “A person who performs certain substantive legal work for and delegated by a lawyer”. Paralegals will assist attorneys with clerical duties along with, meeting clients and keeping in contact with them, assisting in trials, take care of legal documents and proceedings, as well as planning and developing case information. To me they are the lawyers “backbone”.
[5] Common law works in a different way, the judges rather than the Parliament make common law or ‘judge-made law’. Considering criminal and civil cases, the judges take decisions based on the stare decisis principle (Latin “to stand by things decided”, the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent [4]), deliver rulings and create precedents, thus applying the law to real life situations. Therefore, the value of the precedent is very high in the English Common Law system. The strengths of common law
It was revealed by a survey carried out by National Consumer Council how unhappy and unsatisfactory people were with the Civil Justice System. The main weaknesses identified were that the system being too slow, too complicated for ordinary people to understand and too outdated and costly. In the continued criticism of the system Lord Woolf was appointed by the government who came up with suggestions and solutions to overcome these problems. As a result Civil Procedure Rules came into force on 26th April 1999 introducing different reforms to the system. The rationale of the reforms was to avoid litigation and promote settlement between the parties at dispute.
Fali in Chapter 5: Lessons in the ‘School of Hard Knocks.’, tells us that when law students from all over the country ask him how a lawyer must prepare for arguing important cases, he always answers ‘as best as you can.’ Fali, in this chapter, gives an invaluable piece of advise to the young lawyers of today which was advised to him by C.K.Daphtary, ‘It is better to spend more time thinking about a case than merely reading the brief.’ Fali gives another immensely important piece of advise to the lawyers saying, ‘Don’t quarrel with your opponents or be nasty to them because if you have chosen the law as your profession, the major part of your life will be spent with colleagues at the