Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Business Notes: Law - Key Terms

Standard
Accused - The person being prosecuted in a criminal trial

Adversarial Procedure - Trial in which judge acts like the referee in the context between two opposing litigants.

Claimant -The party who brings a civil action

Common Law - Various meanings determined by context: law applicable to the whole of England/ judge-made law rather than statute/not the law of Equity

Crowm - The prosecutor in criminal proceedings

Defence - The person being prosecuted/ their legal representatives

Defendant - Person against whom criminal or civil proceedings are brought

Precedent - Previous judicial decision influential and possibly binding in later cases

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