Judicial Reforms

The problem of judicial corruption in United States is immense. The Sixth Amendment in the United States Bill of Rights refers to the right to a speedy, fair and public trial. Unfortunately, our judicial system does not always maintain these rights. The United States judicial system is very corrupt and most of our country’s citizens do not know how corrupt it actually is. When thinking about the judicial system, words that come to mind are justice, morality, and fairness. Sadly, these words are not accurate descriptions of this system. Correct depictions of today’s judicial system are corruption, rigged courts, extortion, and phony trials. Our legal system does not bring truth or justice to our courtrooms. Overcoming this corruption is not

The criminal courts are responsible for determining the guilt or innocence of the person that is accused (Griffiths, 2015, p.147). As well as the courts are supposed to conclude the appropriate sentence while protecting their rights of the accused. The outcome that comes from the criminal courts is that the judgement is made to be fair, impartial and no political intrusion. Furthermore, the main focus of the courts is the find the fundamental problems, the interagency and interdisciplinary collaboration and the accountability to the community. (Griffiths, 2015, p.147). The court is supposing to keep the fairness and equality through the society.

To be sure, modern laws are made to express the general will, a will that aims at the common good. This means that laws in most cases intend to protect every social member’s rights under the principle of justice and fairness. For telling examples one need to look no further than American judicial system. The access to the two courts systems, one federal court and one state court, provides citizens with the greatest potential to have their legal problems

Court History and Purpose The American court system reinforces positive behavior and was designed to protect and provide justice to the members of society. To fully understand how the criminal court system operates, one must examine the role of courts in today’s criminal justice system.

On the surface, it seems that determining how much power courts have would be a simple task. However, history has proven this to be false. The courts have been viewed in many different ways through out the history of our country. There are three common views of court power that are important for modern scholars of the court system. Those who believe courts have little power to cause social change are said to adhere to the Constrained Court view. Those who believe courts have a great deal of power to cause social change are said to adhere to the Dynamic Court view. The final, and youngest, take on court power combines aspects of the Constrained and Dynamic views into what I shall call the Condition Dependent Court view of power.

This leads to “inevitable bias being introduced into our political and legal cultures” (Dyzenhaus, Moreau, and Ripstein 544). Because these judges are coming from similar backgrounds, they share perspectives that consequently lead to the suppression of those whose interests are not “adequately recognized or supported by the dominant, mainstream ideologies” (Dyzenhaus, Moreau, and Ripstein 544). It is not hard to understand why some fear a Charter that is so hard to change is violating the principles of democracy. Judges, in no sense, are in the position of moral authority nor are they experts in areas typically concerned with by the government (Dyzenhaus, Moreau, and Ripstein 543). The judiciary is the epitome of contrasting notions when it comes to self-governing, the heart of democracy. Allowing unelected judges to overrule decisions of legislators is problematic for all of society and represents the abandonment of self-government (Dyzenhaus, Moreau, and Ripstein 541).

Chapter 3 Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution Answers to Learning Objectives/ For Review Questions at the Beginning and the End of the Chapter Note that your students can find the answers to the even-numbered For Review questions in Appendix F at the end of the text. We repeat these answers here as a convenience to you.

It is essential for a legal system to continue to adapt to contemporary societal values and changes, not purely for the image of change, but for the continual growth and improvement of the justice system. This process is called law reform, which sees to examining existing laws, and if need be, advocating and implementing changes in a legal system, generally with the intent of enhancing justice or the efficiency.

Section three of Chapter Eight titled Doing Justice begins with the following sentence “It should be obvious that laws and trials mean something.” The role that legislated laws play in maintaining the stability and integrity of our society is something that many individuals assume to be determined by unbiased social

Balancing Law and Justice Jessica Evans Drury University Ava Campus Abstract The concerns that are initiated with balancing law and justice are simply put as the law gives us rules that we must follow and justice is more of arguing and proving one’s argument. These laws can be a simple as obeying the speeding limit in a school zone and even using one’s turn signals the proper distance whenever turning on the highway. Justice can be something that one longs for after someone has broken the law and has committed a crime in which they deny what they have done. This paper will discuss the concerns of balancing the law and justice and how the two differ.

A major issue on using litigation for labour disputes is frequent postponements awarded in hearing a case in the courts. According to Sivananthiran and Ratnam (2003) the most prominent cause responsible for delay in adjudication is frequent adjournment granted by the Labour Courts. Both workmen and employer seek adjournment after adjournment at each of the above stage and this contributes to the delay in dispute resolution process.

John Griffith’s thesis asserted that the English judiciary comprises of judges who as a whole are of ‘a unifying attitude of mind, a political position, to protect and conserve certain values and institutions’. Before the Judicial

“Justice delayed is Justice Denied, but is Justice Hurried, Justice Buried?” The Law which rightly speaks about the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence. The law is justice. Nothing can be more clear and simple, more perfectly defined and bounced or more visible to every eye; for justice

Principals of humanity and justice form the foundation of the entire legal system. Elementary considerations of justice form the echelon of

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE AMERICAN AND NIGERIAN ADJUDICATORY PROCESSES. BY: OMOLAJA, OLUWADARA ILUYOMADE EYITOMI. I. INTRODUCTION In the course preserving the law and order, the effectiveness of the system designed to administer justice cannot be over emphasized. Faith in the adjudicatory system by the populace is often underscored by the satisfaction the populace derives from it in terms of its administration of justice. Hence it is pertinent to analyze the approach certain countries are employ in their respective adjudicatory process.