According to the English dictionary equity is the quality of being fair and impartial but legally there is no proper definition for equity but it can be described up to a certain standard. It is about flexibility, justice and fairness which require discretion and uncertainty. It acts as a supplement to the common law. Such as: Land Law, Contract Law, and Tort. Equity developed due to the lack of remedies and non-fulfillment of the common law and it could be said that equity came after the birth of
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Money is Justice: The Effectiveness of Public Defenders vs Private Attorneys Intro section Public defenders are attorneys that work for the government and are assigned to clients who do not wish to hire or cannot afford to hire private attorneys. They are assigned by the courts from a list of public defenders (Atchuthan). The sixth amendment to the constitution and one of the Bill of Rights states, In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by
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Independence of judiciary means a fair and neutral judicial system which can afford to take its decision without any interference of executive or legislative organ of the government. The concept of separation of judiciary from the executive refers to a situation in which the judicial branch of the government acts as its own body free from intervention and influence from the other branches of the government particularly the executive. If the same individual assumes the functions of both executive
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assisted with a team of other lawyers. The show depicts the criminal courts component, because Matlock conducts a fair and impartial trial. This criminal defense attorney upholds the law in bringing the perpetrator to the courtroom in front of a judge who will decide if he/she is guilty or innocent. The stages of the criminal justice system of Matlock are all three components of law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Matlock apprehends the perpetrator, requires that fairness is throughout the
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Ethical Vignette Paper Rashanda Joe Liberty University Abstract This paper presents a summary of the Counseling in Therapy video. In the video the actors discuss real life cases where the Supreme Court Judge had to rule on topics such as: exceptions to confidentiality, privilege, reporting, and the duty to warn. This writer will also discuss her finding s about the statures and laws as they pertain to North Carolina and give a summary of each. Finally the writer will discuss her reflection
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inconsistency of not having any definitions causes the courts into deciding what the Act actually meant; therefore leading to different courts making different decisions on what it means, especially what is meant by ‘entry’. This is a problem because it means judge made law going against what the parliament actually meant. In addition to this the law on entry has changed as seen in the case of Collins where the principle stated that the D must know they are a trespasser or are reckless in not knowing. Here the
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Lawsuit in the Hospital It is an indisputable fact that health care business inherently carries a unique set of risks as a business organization; lawsuits by patients are common. What is not common is the fact that a trained professional who has sworn by the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm,” would seek to file a lawsuit against a hospital because his service is no longer needed because of the new direction that the hospital is going (Grand Canyon University, 2011). To be fair, this physician
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called district courts and circuit courts which are the appellate tribunals. In New York most of the trial courts are considered supreme courts (Columbia Encyclopedia, 2007). The development of court system started in the colonial period. Local judges were called magistrates on the lowest level of their colonial judiciary. By the early eighteenth century, the development of formal courts started. After the American Revolution in 1775, distrust towards the judiciary was developed because of the
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Ethics for Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys Phillip C. Moore U.S. Courts Professor Shenia C. Kirkland, Esq. January 29, 2013 Ethics has been defined in many ways, but one true definition remains elusive when attempting to obtain a clear and concise meaning of ethics. For this paper, ethics will be defined as rules of conduct in regard to specific actions as administered by a particular group of people; i.e. medical or Christian ethics (Webster, 2012). The purpose of this paper is
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Programs must address substance abuse dependency and negligence also. Secondly, parents, educators, judges, social workers, CPS workers, therapist and physicians are acutely unaware of child development and the organization of a child’s brain function (Ludy-Dobson & Perry, 2010). A survey was conducted by the Department of Pediatrics from 1991-1994 and
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