Exercises. Answer the following questions

Answer the following questions.

1) How many legal systems actually are there in the UK? Where does English apply? What law applies in Northern Ireland?

2) What is the difference between common law and civil law?

3) What significant changes occur in UK legal system in october 2009?

4) What courts does the Supreme Court of England and Wales comprise? What courts deal with

civil and criminal cases? Does the Northern Ireland Courts follow a different pattern?

5) What are the chief courts within the legal system of Scotland?

6) What is the highest court of appeal for several independent Commonwealth countries? What

cases does it hear?

8) What cases are heard in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal? What kind of jurisdiction

do the Employment tribunals have?

9) Where can civil cases for minor claims be heard? What are the constituents of the High Court? What court should be appealed if the claimant is dissatisfied with the ruling of the County Court?

10) What claims are supposed to be dealt with in the Queen's Bench Division?

11) What did the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 provide for?

12) Where can a criminal case be heard? Whar cases are heard in the Crown Court? Where do defendants appeal in case of miscarriages of justice?