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Role of a Magistrates

Court

Advantages of Lay

magistrates

Disadvantages of lay

magistrates

Jury selection

Qualifications of Jury?

Advantages & Disadvantages

of the jury

Appeals from a

magistrates court

What is the role of a

Youth Court?

What are the advantages of using a

jury?

A case to show how the jury

are sometimes wrong in their

verdicts

Appeals from the Crown Court?

Process of a small claims

case

What are the Woolf Reforms?

Act that created the 3 track civil procedure?

What are the 3 tracks of Civil

claims and which court are they

heard?

Role of the High Court?And it’s 3 divisions?

Name 1 type of ADR and discuss it’s effectivenes

s

What Act of Parliament

controls legal aid?

What is the training

route for a barrister?

What are the key differences

between a solicitor and a

barrister?

What is an advocacy

certificate?

What is the cab rank

rule?

Explain Alternative Business

Structures

What is legal aid?

What is the role of the CLS & CDS?

How do conditiona

l fees work?

What is ADR?

Name one advantage &

one disadvantage of arbitration?

Describe powers of

police to arrest

Safeguards for public

Stop & Search??

Safeguards for public

Detention

Aims of sentencing

Adult custodial sentences

Community order

requirements

Youth Custodial Sentences

Youth NON custodial sentences

Advantages and disadvantages

of custodial sentences

Factors of Sentencing

Right to Bail

Factors to consider

Bail

Conditional Bail

Restrictions on Bail

Categories of offences

Triable either way procedure

Magistrate Court procedure NOT

guilty plea

Problems of using civil

courts