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    The main legal systems in the world are the European, Roman, and English common law systems. The English system has spread to countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The UK legal system applies different laws to England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The UK Parliament in London can pass laws that apply to all four countries. Criminal cases start in Magistrate's court and civil cases start in County Court, with appeals going through the High Court and Court of Appeal. However, the legal system faces problems like inefficiencies causing last minute hearing cancellations, court closures reducing access to justice, and rising costs preventing access to legal advice.

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    Court System in The UK

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    The main legal systems in the world are the European, Roman, and English common law systems. The English system has spread to countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The UK legal system applies different laws to England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The UK Parliament in London can pass laws that apply to all four countries. Criminal cases start in Magistrate's court and civil cases start in County Court, with appeals going through the High Court and Court of Appeal. However, the legal system faces problems like inefficiencies causing last minute hearing cancellations, court closures reducing access to justice, and rising costs preventing access to legal advice.

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    The main legal systems in the world are the European, Roman, and English common law systems. The English system has spread to countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The UK legal system applies different laws to England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The UK Parliament in London can pass laws that apply to all four countries. Criminal cases start in Magistrate's court and civil cases start in County Court, with appeals going through the High Court and Court of Appeal. However, the legal system faces problems like inefficiencies causing last minute hearing cancellations, court closures reducing access to justice, and rising costs preventing access to legal advice.

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    Court System in The UK

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    The main legal systems in the world are the European, Roman, and English common law systems. The English system has spread to countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The UK legal system applies different laws to England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The UK Parliament in London can pass laws that apply to all four countries. Criminal cases start in Magistrate's court and civil cases start in County Court, with appeals going through the High Court and Court of Appeal. However, the legal system faces problems like inefficiencies causing last minute hearing cancellations, court closures reducing access to justice, and rising costs preventing access to legal advice.

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    The main legal systems in the world include the European legal system, Roman

    law system and English legal system of law that has spread to many other
    countries, which include former English colonies such as Australia, New
    Zealand and Canada.
    The legal system law includes criminal law, civil law and the principal areas of
    non-statutory civil law.
    The legal system of the United Kingdom applies to four countries: England,
    Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, however some of the countries, like
    Scotland and Northern Ireland, are quite autonomous in regards to legal
    regulations. It is the law created by the legislature. It mainly deals with the Acts
    of Parliament. The principal legislation that is based in London deals with the
    UK Parliament. This is the only body that has the power to pass laws that can be
    applied in all four countries. The UK Parliament consists of the House of Lords
    and House of Common. The House of Commons consists of 650 MPs
    (Members of Parliament). Each MP represents a defined geographic
    constituency, where its electors vote using a ‘first-past-the-post’ system. Each
    elector will have one vote, and the candidate is selected as an MP for that
    constituency, depending upon the highest counting of votes.
    The House of Lords consists of nearly 800 peers, out of which 600 are formally
    appointed by the Queen on Prime Minister’s recommendation. The other Lords
    are people who have inherited aristocratic titles such as ‘Lord’ or ‘Lady,’ and
    senior bishops of the Church of England.
    Rather than being designed from scratch, our courts system has evolved and
    developed over 1,000 years. This has led to a complicated and, in places,
    confusing structure.
    Different types of case are dealt with in specific courts, and have different
    routes into the Court of Appeal:
    -All criminal cases will start in the Magistrates’ court, but more serious criminal
    matters are sent to the Crown Court. Appeals from the Crown Court will go to
    the High Court, and potentially to the Court of Appeal or even the UK Supreme
    Court.
    -Civil cases will usually start in the County Court. Again, appeals will go to the
    High Court and then to the Court of Appeal – although to different divisions of
    those courts.
    -The tribunal system has its own structure for dealing with cases and appeals,
    but decisions from different chambers of the Upper Tribunal, and the
    Employment Appeals Tribunal, may also go to the Court of Appeal.
    The courts structure covers England and Wales; the tribunals system covers
    England, Wales and, in some cases, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

    However the system is facing with such problems like


    - Inefficiencies and unfairness in the system. It means that cases in court are
    often 'double booked', so some hearings get canceled at the last minute. Things
    like this waste the accused’s and their solicitor’s time and increase costs.
    Also more and more courts are being closed. One more problem is that people
    on low incomes aren’t able to access legal advice, or are having to pay
    contributions towards it which are higher than they can afford.

    Within five years, there could be areas in England and Wales where people who
    have been arrested will not be able to access a duty solicitor. This means they
    won’t be able to get the free legal advice they’re entitled to.

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