Legal Systems

Who are the decision makers in magistrates' courts?

• Circuit Judges

• Lay magistrates and District Judges

• District judges only

• Crown court judge and Lay magistrates

What sentences can magistrates' courts give?

• Any sentence

• fines, community orders, prison sentences with maximum of 2 years

• fines, community orders, prison sentences with maximum of 6 months for any number of offences

• fines, community orders, prison sentences with maximum of 12 months for 2 or more offences

What two judges can sit in the county court?

• district and circuit

• circuit and high court

• magistrate and district

• circuit and magistrate

Queens Bench and Family are two of the three High Court Divisional Courts. What is the third?

What is the specialist court of the Chancery Division called?

• Administrative Court

• Family Court

• Companies Court

• Winding Up Court

Which of the following cases are heard in the Queens Bench Division?

• Insolvency

• Contract

• Tort

• Criminal Appeals

What section of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 contains the aims of sentencing?

This sentencing aim is intended to make the offender make some form of compensation for the harm he has caused

• Retribution

• Public Protection

• Rehabilitation

• Reparation

Ponting's case relates to which advantage of trial by jury?

• Public Confidence

• Jury Equity

• Impartiality

What is the name of the case that illustrates that the judiciary must be independent to the case? The __________ case (just the surname)