Law & Legal Systems in the United Kingdom

Unit 7: Law & Legal
Systems

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The United Kingdom is the constitutional monarchy and the head of the state is the
monarch. The duties, powers and the functions of monarch are prescribed by the Convention.
Parliament is the superior authority for law making in UK who pass the legislation which
consists of a monarch and two houses, mainly House of Lords and House of Commons. Laws are
basically the set of rules which are created and also enforced by the particular community or
country through the governmental and social institutions in order to regulate the member's
action. The parliament enacts the law and the Supreme Court which is the highest court of the
land who interpret the laws of UK but it cannot struck down any of the statutes (Altawyan,
2017). Parliament have power to over ride the precedents of Supreme court by the virtue of
Parliamentary sovereignty. This essay shall cover the types of laws, main principles of criminal
law, structure of magistrate and crown court and the route of appeal in criminal court. Further it
will cover responsibilities and roles of public service in criminal justice process, various ways in
which effectiveness of CJP can be measured and how performance data can help in measuring
the effectiveness of the criminal justice process.
MAIN BODY
Law is defined as the system of regulations that the country values as governing actions
of the members of the country and enforces it by enforcement of the penalties. Law plays the
significant role in shaping the society. The types of law in English legal system is discussed
below-
Civil and criminal law- It is the most common classification which is used in legal
system. Criminal law3 is about creating the law for the purpose to protect the society as the
whole and provide the punishment to the wrongdoer. It sets out the type of the behaviour which
is forbidden by the society and if it occurs, the penalty is occurred. On other side, the civil law is
used to settle down the dispute between the people which also includes company and the
corporations. The party who is fault is ordered to pay the amount of compensation or comply
with other civil remedies like injunction (Martin, 2018).
Public and the private law- The former includes the government or the state in few way.
There are many kinds of laws which fall under this concept which includes the constitutional law
because all these involves the state. On other hand, the later is concerned with effective running