Essays Tagged: "Judicial Committee of the Privy Council"

Grade 12 Law Exam Notes

ell cocaine…Law as a legal system- agencies that work together to operate the lawIe: police, judicial system, jails.Law as a legal concept- quality of the lawIe: "is it fair'?Legal conceptsOwne ... recedence makes law-Uniform-Predictable-Impartialdecisions of higher courts binding on lower courts-judicial independence is principle that judges function independently of government-where a statute ...

(18 pages) 127 1 1.8 May/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Doctrine of Judicial Precedent

auritius .................................................................................... 3 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) ..................................................... ... rchy........................................................................ 9 (2) Decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ................................................ 9 (3) Disse ...

(21 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Utility of the Jamaican Court Structure

system of jurisprudence has been adopted from English Common Law which is based on the doctrine of judicial precedent, the principle of which the lower courts must follow the decisions of the higher ... dictability within the law, this doctrine allows for court decisions to be heavily reliant on prior judicial pronouncements. Within the Common Law system, courts are bound to the precedents, where the ...

(3 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government