Courts
Court that deals with civil (non-criminal) matters - compensation for injuries, Landowners seeking prevention of trespassers, pub licencing.
What is the county Court?
In most cases - the first point of contact for an employment case to go to tribunal.
What is ACAS?
They represent you in court
What is a barrister?
The report that influenced reformed the Civil justice System.
What is the Woolf Report?
Sentence which prevents offenders visiting certain places
What is an exclusion requirement?
Administrative court, admiralty court, commercial court, circuit commercial, technology and construction court.
What are the divisions of the King's bench?
The three members of the tribunal who decide a case
What is the tribunal panel?
a member of the legal profession qualified to deal with conveyancing, the drawing up of wills, and other legal matters. They may also represent you in court
What is a solicitor?
Act which established the aims and purpose of modern sentencing, police powers, allocation of criminal offences.
What is the Criminal Justice Act 2003?
Factor that may reduce a sentence for an offender
What is a mitigating factor?
Service established in 2002 and provides a debt recovery service over the internet for sums of up to £100,000.
What is money claim online?
They handle appeals to employment tribunals
What is EAT?
A specialist legal advisor in a certain area
What is a legal executive?
An Act to restate and improve the law relating to arbitration pursuant to an arbitration agreement
What is the Arbitration Act 1996?
A sentence where the offender must go to jail
What is a custodial sentence?
Actions that must be followed prior to a case going to court or early settlement
What are the Pre-Action Protocols (Pre-Trail Protocols)?
The four types of ADR (on our course)
What is mediation, arbitration, conciliation and negotiation?
Investigates complaints between consumers and their legal service providers
What is the legal ombudsman?
What is the Juries Act 1974?
Offenders make amends for their crimes - they repair the damage caused
What is reparation?
Court where defamation must always be dealth with.
What is the High Court?
The appeal for an employment tribunal must be based on this.
What is a point of law?
Member of the public who is not legally trained who presides over criminal cases and family cases
What is a magistrate?
The Act that set up the sentencing council for England and Wales
What is the Coroners and justice Act 2009?
An order received in the post for jury service
What is a summons?