- 9 minute presentation with basic court process in an English Common Law court system.
- The court process in common law simplified as follows:
- STEP ONE: Compile your Case
- STEP TWO: File a Notice of Claim of Right
- STEP THREE: The community comes together to elect the Court in to being
- STEP FOUR: Those elected swear the Oaths of Office
- STEP FIVE: A pre-trial conference is held. The Adjudicator brings together both parties in a pre-trial conference to settle the case prior to a trial. If a settlement is not achieved, after a period of not more than one week, this pre-trial conference will conclude and the trial will commence.
- STEP SIX: Issue a public summons to the accused
- STEP SEVEN: The trial commences with opening arguments
- STEP EIGHT: The main proceedings, each side personally presents their case to the Jury, there are no lawyers in a Common Law Court
- STEP NINE: Closing arguments and summaries to the Jury and final advice to the Adjudicator
- STEP TEN: The Jury retires to deliberate
- STEP ELEVEN: The Jury issues its unanimous verdict and sentence. The verdict must be unanimous or the case is dismissed
- STEP TWELVE: The Court adjourns and the sentence is enforced, it's that simple.
Further Reading:
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals by Sir William Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone
A Concise History of the Common Law by Theodore F.T. Plucknett
Ancient Law by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Petition of Right document by Sir Edward Coke
Magna Carta
A Defence for Fugitive Slaves by Lysander Spooner.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
‘The Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Certainty of Right’ in The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound