Civil law

Q.1. Give a brief description on the types of legal adjudication in practice through the world. ANSWER The legal adjudication in practice throughout the world is Court based settlements and Non Court based settlements. It also can be said Formal control mechanism and Informal control mechanism. Formal control mechanism is guide that helps to resolve the problems that may occur in the society and discourage those who are willing to disrupt the peace of the society Informal control mechanism is…

of the prejudices of other countries culture and differences in accounting. How do these differences lead to differences in interpreting standards and reporting financial information and why? These non-accounting factors also include differences in laws, politics, accounting education and the attitude toward the…

Chinese legal system, the court makes decisions or rulings based on laws or codes that were created specifically so there would not be any need for interpretation. Their legal system does not allow for what we call in the United States a fair and judicious trail, they look at the crime committed with no sort of deviation. The courts are basically there to issue a ruling on the crime. There is not much flexibility or interpretation on the law, when a crime is committed the defendant will usually…

Throughout history legal traditions shaped the way society is structured. Two of the major traditions are the common law traditions and the civil law traditions. Within these traditions, certain unique systems were created that aided the criminal procedure. In common law traditions it was the adversarial system and in civil law traditions it was the inquisitorial system. There has always been an argument whether or not these systems worked “as intended by design”. The flaws of an inquisitorial…

we were to define the term legal pluralism and rules of law in their respective connotations. Legal pluralism refers to a situation where at least two legal orders assert jurisdiction over the same geographical space and persons within that space; and a legal order is defined as a set of rules and practices that are oriented towards ordering relations between persons with its own source of authority. On the other hand, the term rule of law refers to a principle of governance in which all persons…

Legal transplants, according to legal scholar W.A.J ‘Alan’ Watson occurs when a country’s legal system is adopted or moved to some other country. The transfer of the dominion of law often happens through the diffusion of law during colonization and globalization 's. However the possibility of legal transplant is often argued by scholars sparking debates. In Legrand’s the impossibility of legal transplant he mentioned that “for the transplant to be completely viable; it cannot just be an…

(DeSombre, 1995). Procedural law “points out the kind of evidence that can be submitted, what the jury is allowed to hear and the credentials of those allowed to represent the defendant” (Schmalleger, 2011, p. 20). Procedural law protects the rights of criminal suspects by specifying step-by-step rules that outline the legal criminal procedure by which the criminal justice system functions and the substantive criminal law can be enforced (Schmalleger, 2011). Procedural law acts as a balance…

Merriam-Webster Dictionary, one definition of advocate is “a person who argues for the cause of another person in a court of law.” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.) With that being the definition, acting as an advocate and arguing on behalf of their clients is an essential role that attorneys play. This seems to be especially true since the U.S. legal system is setup to be adversarial. In Law in our Lives: An Introduction, David Friedrichs states, “the courts in the [U.S.] criminal justice system are…

the gods below who set in place such laws as these for humankind; nor did I think that your proclamations had such strength that, mortal as you are, you could outrun those laws that are the gods', unwritten and unshakable”( lines 450-457). In the Greek tragedy Antigone, written by philosopher Sophocles, the author presents a plethora of timeless themes that never lose their relevance. Amongst these themes is the idea of civil disobedience. The theme of civil obedience can be identified and…

Civil litigation attorneys are often portrayed as extremely capable people who can hold their own in heated debates, but few of these portrayals give a true glimpse into the education and skill that a civil attorney must possess in order to be truly exceptional. They are required to have certain traits to help them express their knowledge and do what is right as well as an education to inform them on how to handle a case. Civil litigation attorneys must have many skills and educational…