Legal Theory
This type of law deals with people who have committed breaches of the law that affect society as a whole. ie: Theft, murder or assault.
Criminal Law
Murder
This court hears mainly summary offences and does not have any appellate jurisdiction.
Magistrate's Court
This group of people decide the verdict in a legal case on the basis of evidence submitted in court.
Jury
This word desrcibes a punishment that can be handed down in a criminal case.
Sanction
This word describes a person charged with a criminal offence
Accused or Defendant
Defensive Homicide
This court is responsible for hearing cases involving murder, attempted murder and treason and hears appeals on points of law from the Magistrate's Court.
Supreme Court
This is the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, which often includes specific conditions.
Bail
This term describes the person who committed the crime before the court.
Principal Offender
This type of law deals with the infringement of one person's rights by another.
Civil Law
This offence occurs when is caused without the same level of intention as murder.
Manslughter
This court has no original jurisdiction and only hears appeals.
Court of Appeal
This offence refers to when a defendant is found to have driven a motor vehicle at a speed or in a manner that is a danger to the public.
Dangerous Driving
This term describes a person who counsels or procures the commission of the crime before the court.
Abettor
These are serious criminal offences for which the defendant is entitled to trail by jury.
Indictable offence
This country has sentences more people to death than any other in the past 5 years
China
This court hears cases involving indictable offences, excluding serious offences like murder or treason. It also hears appeals from the Magistrate's court
County Court
These are minor criminal offences usually heard in Magistrate's Court.
Summary offences
This term describes a person who impedes the apprehension, prosecution or punishment of the person who commited the crime.
Accessory
The type of law that is created by parliament is known as
Statute Law
This two-word concept is said to exist when a defendant has a both a guilty mind and intended to commit the crime in question.
Malice Aforethough
This term refers to a judgment or decision of a court that is cited in a later dispute as an example or to justify deciding a similar case in the same manner.
Precedent
This is the most serious offence under Victorian road law involving driving in a manner causing death.
Culpable Driving
This idea refers to the concept that all defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
Presumption of innocence