Background and the Judicary and Parliament
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Background
- Courts of Appeal And Crimminal DIvisions, hear appeals from lower courts
- The Hight Court, deals with civil disputes
- The Supreme Court, mainly interpretations of the law
- They decide whether rule of law has been abused
- They make law/ interpretate law, regina v jogee 2016, rewrote the law on joint enterprise
- They enforce common law, murder
- They also conduct judicial review, M vs Home office 1993, 2013 15,000 applications made
- They conduct public inquiries
- Macpherson Inquiry 1999, to examine handling of a murder case
- Hutton inquiry 2003, look into suicide of David Kelly
- Leveson inquiry 2012, to look into phone hacking scandal
- Gibson Inquiry, 2013, look into alligations of torture on UK intelligence
- Constitutional Reform Act, made judges apopointed not lords and gave supreme court more power
The Judicary And Parliament
- Parliament is more powerful ,2010 terrorist asset freezing act passed in Parliament to bypass the supreme court saying they cant…
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