We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy This case study concerns a young white man, ‘AJ’, and will detail the problems that he experienced when he came into contact with the Criminal Justice System because of his prejudicial treatment by a […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy ‘This Court is a court of law, not of morals, and our task has been to find, and our duty is then to apply the relevant principles of law to the situation before us- […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In this quotation from South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs, taken from the chapter ‘Tock Tick: The Working of a Judicial Mind’, in his book ‘The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law’; he […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The establishment of an African Court of Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) is a landmark moment in international human rights law. With the recent election of judges to its first bench, there is a […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy This is the decision from the Court of Justice (CJEU) within the 6th Chamber of 16 January 2003 whereby Italian legislation required cocoa and chocolate products containing vegetable fats other than cocoa butter to […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The European Court of Justice has consistently refused to award EU law protection to cases it defines as purely internal to a Member State (Maduro, 2000). This non-involvement by the ECJ has brought about […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy To understand the point of law that that the Judges applied to this case, we must first try to understand the material facts of the case. The appellant, who herself had been taking into […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Public Interest Litigation is a good thing when it is used to enforce the rights of the disadvantaged. But it has now been diluted to interfere with the power of the government to take […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Judicial Branch is established under Article III of the Constitution. It was created to be the weakest of all three branches of government. Each branch has its own characteristics, but what distinguishes this branch […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy From the structure and caseload that were retrieved from the State Court Caseload Statistics of 2003, the mandatory cases filed in the State of Florida was a total of 143 cases under the Supreme […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The principle of plain view has changed over time. In the case of Harris v. United States, the Court declared the evidence taken as a result of opening the door of a car which […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy There are few issues in contemporary American society that commands as much response as does the issue of the 2nd amendment. Since the inception of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the 2nd amendment […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In July 2005, President George W. Bush set off a media whirlwind by announcing that he was nominating John G. Roberts as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Technically, the vacancy was […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The Juvenile Justice System has been around for centuries. The underlying reason for separating juveniles from adult criminals is simple; the system believes that children are less guilty or culpable for their criminal acts […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy My courtroom observation was completed at Supreme Court of New South located at Phillip Street, Sydney. The proceeding that I chose to attend within the Court was listed in the Commercial List, at courtroom […]