Judicial Reforms of Lord Cornwallis

The Victorian Court System was made up of many different parts, including the three different courts, the different juries, and the lawyers. There were three different courts: the Petty Court, the Assize Court and the King’s/Queen’s Bench. Each of the three courts functioned to serve a different purpose, and worked together to hold all of the trials. There were also different court sessions, which included Petty Sessions, Quarter Sessions, Borough Sessions, and City Councils, all of which served different purposes. In addition to the courts and court sessions, there were also the two different juries and the different lawyers. All of these components of the court were very important to the trials, and made the court what we know it as today.

The King in his right mind has total control and power of the colonies and can do whatever he deems necessary to control them. With that said, The king of that time, not thinking about the peoples feelings went ahead and instead of making the people happy did whatever he could to make the government better. Which in the long run was to make money. Well every time the king mad a law to make up for another law that the people didn’t like, it

These rules have been developed in order to try and keep the process fair to both sides and ensure consistency between trials. The implementation of legal aid ensures that poorer offenders have access to the legal system and receive a fair trial. The measures both legal and non-legal through the criminal trial process ensure that each offender receives a fair trial in which they can be correctly convicted and effectively sentenced.

While the colonists had many grievances surrounding King George III the strongest grievance was his plan “To force colonist to buy English products” he had Parliament place high taxes on goods from other countries. The key word

Simplified court structure: There is this need for a simple, uniform court structure that has been constantly stressed by court reformers. Particularly the multiplicity of specialized courts would be consolidated eliminating variations among counties. By simplifying the court structure, there

Dictating that Massachusetts produce a certain annual allowance of cotton for the crown would be ridiculous. Due to distance, the Crown was unable to directly regulate economic policy and trade within the colonies so the colonists were forced to devise a regulatory system. This system allowed “a young business man [to] borrow money and move into trade, challenging the commercial position of older, more experienced merchants” (Text, 51).

Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. According to the document, “the said general government [would] be administered by a President-General, to be appointed and supported by the crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by representatives of the people,” (Document 1). Franklin wished to create a unifying government for all of the colonies which Britain opposed as they wanted the colonies to remain separate. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed the 13 colonies as an independent sovereign nation no longer under British rule. Colonists felt that Britain had prevented colonists from attaining life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They stated that Britain had imposed an absolute tyranny on the colonies. According to the Declaration of Independence, King George, “obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers” (Document 4). Britain had not allowed courts of law in North Carolina which demonstrates the unjust rule on King George’s behalf. Additionally, the judges he sent to the colonies were corrupt and merely cared about their salaries. Other violations included keeping standing armies in the colonies during times of peace, depriving citizens of trial by jury, and

The new King attempted to create the Dominion of New England, which was planned to organize the northern colonies into a one large province and then to be ruled by a “royal appointee”. Yet, it had failed to be put into action. This, and the events happening in England, would lead to the Glorious Revolution following a few years later. The Glorious Revolution had rejected James II’s authority and after the overthrow of his authority the northern colonies were free from the Dominion of New England. The new King (William) seemed to have no interest in the colonies and left them to fend for themselves, which allowed the colonies to self-govern. The Bill of Rights, which Parliament had passed in 1689, would later on be a model of how the colonies would rule

The British parliament passed four policies during 1765 to 1767, Stamp Act, Quartering Acts, Townshend Duty Act and Declaratory Act. They were all approved after French and Indian War. Because of the British troops won the battle with French in North American in 1763, as a matter of course British took place lands that had belonged to France. In order to control these lands well, British government passed these four laws. But these laws didn’t achieve the desired results.

General Cornwallis from Grosvenor Square, London was forty-five years old when the Revolutionary War ended. He was promoted to lieutenant general and began service in the colonies under Major General Henry Clinton. When the British army was retreating to Yorktown, George Washington was marching his troops down from the north. The French Navy, having defeated the British Navy, started to move to the coast near Yorktown, as well. The British army was now surrounded at Yorktown. The British were also outnumbered by the French and American troops. Eventually, General Cornwallis sent out the white flag and surrendered. The Patriot victory at Yorktown effectively ended fighting in the American colonies. Peace negotiations began in 1782, and on

The Quartering Act of 1765 is directly relevant to Chapter 6. It is relevant to Chapter 6 because it is a response to the huge war debt against an already strained budget. George III’s main priority was that he wanted to maintain the size of the army. The colonists were not the biggest fans of this army. The Quartering Act (1765) was one of four pieces of legislation that forced the colonies and colonists to contribute and help with the upkeep of the large army(Oakes et al., 2015, pg. 167).

The reforms law dealt with reconstructing the colonies voting regulations rather than having a glorious fight against freemen to vote. The leaders were selfish, rather than having a glorious fight against tyranny. The Indian wars which resulted from this direction led to the high taxes to pay the army and the generals discontent in the colony for having to shoulder that burden. Due to this Nathaniel Bacon forcefully took supplies from Gloucester and left them vulnerable to possible Indian attacks. Therefore Berkeley denied Bacons request as a leader of a local

For this criteria I will be producing a written evaluation of the effectiveness of magistrates and juries in the administration of justice in the English legal system.

This paper is going to describe the road from arrest to Supreme Court, and the two ways a

The Supreme Court of India has adopted a forward-looking approach since last few years, particularly having regard to the socio-economic conditions prevailing in the country. In fact there are two kinds of approaches which characterise the functioning of the highest Court in every