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	LLRX -- Update to A Guide to the UK Legal System
		The constitutional law of the UK is regarded as consisting of statute law on the one hand and case law on the other, whereby judicial precedent is applied in the courts by judges interpreting statute law.
		The UK is a signatory of the European Convention of Human Rights, and this has recently been incorporated into UK law with the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998.
		Law degrees in the UK are at undergraduate level.
	www.llrx.com /features/uk2.htm

	family law, food law, government, courts, legal aid
		The Official Solicitor provides representation for minors or adults under legal disability, in county court or High Court proceedings in England and Wales, and in the Court of Protection.
		The Coroners' Law Resource,created by Paul Matthews, of the School of Law, King's College, London, are intended to assist both the non-lawyer and the lawyer on this topic.
		Family Law Week is a new free site for family lawyers, covering developments in divorce, ancillary relief, private child law, public child law and cohabitation.
	www.venables.co.uk /sitesf.htm

	Family law courts in UK
		FAM also wants to see the introduction of a system which would encourage the use of mediation instead of the courts in 'ordinary' contact disputes, in an attempt to promote greater continuity, consensus and stability.
		Most fathers go to court in the understandable expectation that their case will be dealt with in a rational, fair and effective manner.
		The stories that trickle out of family courts can sometimes be as bizarre and comic as they are heartbreaking.
	www.bigglesguy.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /familycourt.html

	The Court System
		Law Index by Courts is a good option as it covers a wide variety of UK courts.
		The structure of the courts in all three jurisdictions within the United Kingdom tends to be arranged according to the subject-matter of cases brought before the courts rather than the source of the laws to be applied.
		Another feature to note is that cases are often slow to pass through the system, measured in months or years rather than weeks as for criminal cases.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /law/hamlyn/courtsys.htm

	The Campaign for Philosophical Freedom
		They are deemed necessary because the current consistory court system is too cumbersome and hardly ever used.
		The event is done in partnership with members of the public, businesses, statutory and voluntary organisations who together sit as a panel to discuss, inform, advise and educate people about the facts surrounding contemporary issues, along with important support services that can be directly obtained.
		IssueFM is a talk radio station that sets out to tackle some of the most pressing problems causing social exclusion and disadvantage to people living in the inner city area of London.
	www.cfpf.org.uk /news/news_12.html

	Legal Abbreviations
		Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (England and Wales)
		A list of common legal abbreviations, including law report series and legal journals, as well as a few general abbreviations commonly used in law.
		P.L.R.P and D. Law Reports: Probate and Divorce.
	library.kent.ac.uk /library/info/subjectg/law/abbrev.htm

	Abuse Law Professionals, UK
		By providing information on the legal rights available to the survivor of abuse in seeking compensation, an explanation of the civil and criminal court procedures and a guide to the Legal Aid system and Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, the site aims to offer a greater understanding of the workings of the Legal system.
		The site also aims to offer guidance on and understanding of the legal system of England and Wales for professionals working for survivors of abuse.
		Stewarts have a specialist department dedicated to working for survivors of abuse including two of the UK's leading abuse litigation lawyers.
	www.abuselaw.co.uk

	CNSNews.com: The Cybercast News Service
		(CNSNews.com) - A constitutional law group is calling on the Bush administration not to release internal documents related to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, saying it "would set a dangerous precedent" just to satisfy those on a "fishing expedition" in the lead-up to the confirmation hearings.
		10- UK Urged to Bar 'Sheikh of Terror'
		The edict was actually issued by the North American Fiqh Council.
	www.cnsnews.com

	Re: Someone needs to bring the "family" back into Family Law. It is a system gone badly a
		>> court systems where any semblance of justice has been tainted by
		It is a system gone badly a -
		>> attorneys at local Family Courts, are not to be trifled with or taken
	www.weddingmanual.co.uk /showthread/t-4260.html

	NSPCC Social Services Police Law and Family Court Injustice UK
		NSPCC Social Services Police Law and Family Court Injustice UK How you deal with Social Workers, Court, Police, Prison, the NSPCC and Probation, is within these pages.
		Updated, as new laws and even more bureaucracy threaten to overwhelm us
	www.legalsurvival.co.uk

	LLRX.com Resource Center - Comparative and Foreign Law
		Ingrid Kabir, law librarian at the Law Section of Stockholm University, reviews a wide range of information and resources on the Swedish legal system, including: sources of law, the court system and reports of cases, indexes and digests, parliamentary information, legal publishers, legal news, and more.
		Law Librarian, lawyer and author Margaret Greville provides a guide rich in content and links to her country's legal system, with topics including the government and legal system, primary legal information, the legal profession, legal news sources and legal texts.
		Law Librarian, lawyer and author Margaret Greville provides an article rich in content and links to her country's legal system, with topics including primary legal materials, the legal profession, legal news sources and legal texts.
	www.llrx.com /comparative_and_foreign_law.html

	Comparative Criminology Europe - Ireland
		The judicial system consists of a district court with 23 districts, a circuit court with 8 circuits, the High Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal, and the Supreme Court.
		Rules of evidence are generally the same as in regular courts; however, the sworn statement of a police chief superintendent identifying the accused as a member of an illegal organization is accepted as prima facie evidence.
		There are 5 main legislative influences in Irish Law: the statutes of the old Irish parliament prior to 1800, the statutes of the English parliament (1719-1782) the statutes of the United Kingdom parliament (1800-1922) the statutes enacted by the Irish Free State (1922) and the enactments established by the 1937 Constitution.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/europe/ireland.html (7268 words)

	WHITE PAPER ON THE 1996 INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE VOLUME II (EN)
		The UK believes that defence stands at the very core of national sovereignty, and that the most suitable system is the existing one based on NATO under which final decisions are always adopted by consensus and national governments are responsible to their home parliaments.
		The UK considers that the role of the Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice in these matters should remain as it is, i.e.
		On the Court of Justice, the UK Government considers that its workings need improvement.
	www.europarl.eu.int /igc1996/pos-en_en.htm (3288 words)

	LLRX -- Update to A Guide to the UK Legal System
		The Scottish legal system is in part separate from that of England and Wales.
		The court system is separate and different from that of England and Wales, and uses different terminology.
		Reform of civil and criminal procedure is under The Court System above.
	www.llrx.com /features/uk2.htm (3288 words)

	Newsbytes News Network: Scottish Court In Landmark Ruling On Internet Domain Names
		Brooks subsequently made an application to the Glasgow Sheriff court to interdict (injunct) further use of the name www.menus.co.uk on the basis that the harmful event of passing off, occurring through the viewing of that site, occurred in Glasgow.
		An interesting legal case over similar domain names, passing through the Scottish legal system, has set a precedent that the courts can issue an interim order that blocks an organization from using the disputed domain name while the case awaits a full civil trial.
		The Scottish case centers around the use of the domain name menu.co.uk, which is used at http://www.menu.co.uk by Alan Brooks, a Scottish businessman, who uses the Web site to publicize menus from UK restaurants who pay Brooks a small fee to display their menus on the Internet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_n36/ai_20314195 (3288 words)

	Politics
		UK Electoral System : This Russel Tarr activity is based around the question: "What sort of electoral system should the UK have?" The students are taken through three systems: Constituency System, Proportional Representation and a hybrid system drawing upon both the constituency and the PR models.
		Topics included are: Federalism; the President; Congress; the role of the Supreme Court; elections in America; voting patterns in elections; political parties at a state and local level; pressure groups in America and public attitude towards politics in America.
		European Unity : David Howell (Lord Howell of Guildford) is a former Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport in the UK Government and an economist and journalist.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (3288 words)

	Electoral Fraud.org - Stamping Out Electoral Postal Vote Fraud
		Despite an electoral court in Birmingham condemning the British postal voting system as one which ‘would disgrace a banana republic’, the government has no intention of changing the system ahead of the forthcoming General Election on the 5th May 2005.
		Health Secretary John Reid described the problem as ‘a minor one affecting 2 wards’, which rather neatly sums up the attitude of politicians as long as they are the beneficiaries of such a hopelessly insecure system.
		It is time to stop allowing our political system to be misused by the traditional parties and to stamp out fraud.
	www.electoralfraud.org (3288 words)

	Politics
		UK Electoral System: This Russel Tarr activity is based around the question: "What sort of electoral system should the UK have?" The students are taken through three systems: Constituency System, Proportional Representation and a hybrid system drawing upon both the constituency and the PR models.
		European Unity: David Howell (Lord Howell of Guildford) is a former Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport in the UK Government and an economist and journalist.
		Topics included are: Federalism; the President; Congress; the role of the Supreme Court; elections in America; voting patterns in elections; political parties at a state and local level; pressure groups in America and public attitude towards politics in America.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (3288 words)

	Politics
		UK Electoral System : This Russel Tarr activity is based around the question: "What sort of electoral system should the UK have?" The students are taken through three systems: Constituency System, Proportional Representation and a hybrid system drawing upon both the constituency and the PR models.
		Topics included are: Federalism; the President; Congress; the role of the Supreme Court; elections in America; voting patterns in elections; political parties at a state and local level; pressure groups in America and public attitude towards politics in America.
		European Unity : David Howell (Lord Howell of Guildford) is a former Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport in the UK Government and an economist and journalist.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (3288 words)

	Politics
		UK Electoral System: This Russel Tarr activity is based around the question: "What sort of electoral system should the UK have?" The students are taken through three systems: Constituency System, Proportional Representation and a hybrid system drawing upon both the constituency and the PR models.
		European Unity: David Howell (Lord Howell of Guildford) is a former Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport in the UK Government and an economist and journalist.
		Topics included are: Federalism; the President; Congress; the role of the Supreme Court; elections in America; voting patterns in elections; political parties at a state and local level; pressure groups in America and public attitude towards politics in America.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (9607 words)

	Politics
		UK Electoral System: This Russel Tarr activity is based around the question: "What sort of electoral system should the UK have?" The students are taken through three systems: Constituency System, Proportional Representation and a hybrid system drawing upon both the constituency and the PR models.
		European Unity: David Howell (Lord Howell of Guildford) is a former Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport in the UK Government and an economist and journalist.
		Topics included are: Federalism; the President; Congress; the role of the Supreme Court; elections in America; voting patterns in elections; political parties at a state and local level; pressure groups in America and public attitude towards politics in America.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (9607 words)

	Justice Links
		The Criminal Justice System forum is designed to encourage open discussion of all aspects of the UK Criminal Justice process (eg Police, Courts, Prisons and Probation), by drawing together academics, practitioners, and those the System affects to share views, experience, information about publications and events and to promote greater public understanding.
		The Court Service is an executive agency of the UK Lord Chancellor's Department.
		The House of Lords is the final court of appeal on points of law for the whole of the United Kingdom in civil cases and for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in criminal cases.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /depsta/rel/ccjs/justicelink/law.html (9607 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Supreme concerns
		The court is expected to sit as a panel of five judges, drawn from a pool of 12, and the faculty said it would be "undesirable" for any jurisdiction of the UK to be a permanent minority.
		It goes on to argue that the new court be based in premises which are not used by the courts of England and Wales, and possibly at a location away from London, like a city in the north of England, or Cardiff, or Belfast, in order to emphasise its UK-wide role.
		Any court with jurisdiction in Scotland cannot be a part of the England and Wales court system, and the faculty warned: "The constitutional significance of this cannot be overstated.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1243372003 (9607 words)

	LLRX -- Update to A Guide to the UK Legal System
		The court system is separate and different from that of England and Wales, and uses different terminology.
		It uses its own system of citation for cases and there are links other cases and legislation where they are loaded on the database.
		The Scottish legal system is in part separate from that of England and Wales.
	www.llrx.com /features/uk2.htm (4564 words)

	BBC News UK Life of Crime Miscarriages of Justice
		Mr Christian favours the French system of investigating magistrates or the Staatsanwalte in Germany, in which the prosecuting lawyers are involved from the outset.
		The adversarial system replaced with a continental-style inquisitorial system, where the driving motive behind any police investigation is the search for the truth.
		Mr Mullin admitted the adversarial system had flaws and said: "There is a strong case for a system which finds the truth, rather than a contest between skilled adversaries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2001/life_of_crime/miscarriages.stm (1577 words)

	Time and Attendance UK - Time and Attendance Systems and Software
		Whatever your requirements, Time and Attendance UK specialists are available to help customers get the best from their system.
		At Time and Attendance UK, we believe that the Working Time Directive will prove the end for the traditional manual "clock card" system.
		Time and Attendance UK for all your Time and Attendance requirements.
	www.timeandattendance-uk.co.uk (1577 words)

	Nominet UK - Terms and Conditions
		Enforcement of a court order may be done in any law or court system that is relevant.
		Our offices are open from 9am to 5.30pm (UK local time) Monday to Friday, except for public holidays.
		'we', 'us', 'our' - Nominet UK (company number 3203859).
	www.nominet.org.uk /nominet-terms.html (3574 words)

	Plurality electoral system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Changes to the UK system have been proposed, and alternatives were examined by the Jenkins Committee in the late 1990s but no major changes have been implemented.
		The election of a Member of Parliament in the UK is a well known example of the First Past the Post electoral system.
		If enough voters use this tactic, the first-past-the-post system becomes, effectively, runoff voting - a completely different system - where the first round is held in the court of public opinion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Past_the_Post_electoral_system (3315 words)

	Privy council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Privy Council was formerly the court of final adjudication for Hong Kong.
		It is an important part of the Westminster System with the original being Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in the United Kingdom.
		The British Privy Council is also the ultimate judiciary body - equivalent to a Supreme Court - for many Commonwealth countries that were formerly part of the British Empire (ie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privy_Council (3315 words)

	History of Iraq - The History Beat
		An appellate court system and the court of cassation (court of last recourse) complete the judicial structure.
		Iraq's judicial system is based on the French model introduced during Ottoman rule and has three types of lower courts--civil, religious, and special.
		US Forces Turn the Screw on Blitzed Baghdad - Reuters, UK - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - US forces battled through the streets of central Baghdad on Tuesday, widening their control over the city and pounding the remaining...
	history.searchbeat.com /iraq.htm (3315 words)

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