Just how good is Ntini?

[Richard]

Broadly and fairly simply speaking, England and Wales (Scotland is slightly different, as is Northern Ireland) has:

For criminal law:
Magistrates courts
The Crown Court

For civil law:
The Small Claims Court which is an affiliate of
The County Court

There is then:
The High Court (which has Family, Queen Bench and Chancery divisions)
The Court of Appeal (which has civil and criminal divisions)
and
The House Of Lords

But the ECJ (European Court of Justice) holds higher authority than any UK court.

I'm sure Mr. z would be able to give a more cogent explanation than that, but I doubt too many are terribly interested anyway.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Going to be an awesome lawyer.

"My client is Not Guilty your Honour, and anyone who disagrees with me obviously knows nothing about the law. Cased dismissed."

 

[Matt79]

"Yes, he was a violent murderer when he first came to the attention of police, but he was clearly picked by them when he was too young, while experiencing a recurrence of a back injury. If we look at his behaviour from September 2001 to May 2008, he was an exemplary citizen, excepting the periods Feb 2002, and June-August 2006, when again he was troubled by his back injury and not his normal self. Now, I know that he's killed some Bangladeshis, but I don't consider that that should carry the formal status of murder and always exclude such events as meaningless"

Sorry Rich, hard to resist sometimes...

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

The Supreme Court, not the House of Lords.

 

[Richard]

The process of reform is continuing apace, but has not been carried-out with the swiftness originally desired - the plan had been for it to be complete in 2009.

But yes, when all is eventually done as the (I forget exactly which) Act has decreed, the Supreme Court will indeed take the House Of Lords' place as the highest court in the land.

 

[Richard]

"Yes, he was a violent murderer when he first came to the attention of police, but he was clearly picked by them when he was too young, while experiencing a recurrence of a back injury. If we look at his behaviour from September 2001 to May 2008, he was an exemplary citizen, excepting the periods Feb 2002, and June-August 2006, when again he was troubled by his back injury and not his normal self. Now, I know that he's killed some Bangladeshis, but I don't consider that that should carry the formal status of murder and always exclude such events as meaningless"

Sorry Rich, hard to resist sometimes...

Decent effort, but it'd be top-rank if Neil Pickup hadn't posted basically the same thing back in 2004.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

But yes, when all is eventually done as the (I forget exactly which) Act has decreed, the Supreme Court will indeed take the House Of Lords' place as the highest court in the land.

Which was last October...unless I am mistaken, of course.

 

[DaRick]

"Yes, he was a violent murderer when he first came to the attention of police, but he was clearly picked by them when he was too young, while experiencing a recurrence of a back injury. If we look at his behaviour from September 2001 to May 2008, he was an exemplary citizen, excepting the periods Feb 2002, and June-August 2006, when again he was troubled by his back injury and not his normal self. Now, I know that he's killed some Bangladeshis, but I don't consider that that should carry the formal status of murder and always exclude such events as meaningless"

Sorry Rich, hard to resist sometimes...

 

[bagapath]

"Yes, he was a violent murderer when he first came to the attention of police, but he was clearly picked by them when he was too young, while experiencing a recurrence of a back injury. If we look at his behaviour from September 2001 to May 2008, he was an exemplary citizen, excepting the periods Feb 2002, and June-August 2006, when again he was troubled by his back injury and not his normal self. Now, I know that he's killed some Bangladeshis, but I don't consider that that should carry the formal status of murder and always exclude such events as meaningless"

Sorry Rich, hard to resist sometimes...

how about "the county court thinks he is not guilty; the high court wants to hang him. but just because the high court is considered by everyone to be of higher authority doesnt mean the county court is inferior. in fact, back in the 1960s some county courts did boast of better qualified judges than the high courts. anyone who thinks high court's ruling deserves to be implemented over the county court's is obviously insane"

 

[Daryl Harper]

"Yes, he was a violent murderer when he first came to the attention of police, but he was clearly picked by them when he was too young, while experiencing a recurrence of a back injury. If we look at his behaviour from September 2001 to May 2008, he was an exemplary citizen, excepting the periods Feb 2002, and June-August 2006, when again he was troubled by his back injury and not his normal self. Now, I know that he's killed some Bangladeshis, but I don't consider that that should carry the formal status of murder and always exclude such events as meaningless"

Sorry Rich, hard to resist sometimes...