Legal System
,Legal concepts
• Habeas Corpus: You cannot be detained, and deprived of your freedom, unless the law allows it.
• Monarch and Crown: The terms “the sovereign” or “monarch” and “the Crown” are related but
separate meanings. The Crown encompasses both the monarch and the government. It is vested in the
but in general its functions are exercised by Ministers of the Crown accountable to the UK Parliament o
three devolved legislatures
• Equitable remedies:
- Injunctions: A requirement that something be done or not done
- Specific performance: The carrying out of an obligation, usually in relation to land
- Recission: Confirming that a contract no longer exists
- Rectification: Correcting a wrong
- An account of profits: Allowing an innocent party an appropriate share of a wrongdoer’s gains.
• The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875 created a single court structure and merge
separate court systems of equity and the common law.
,• The Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill was passed as the Retained EU Law (Revocation & Re
Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”), which amended the basis of retained EU law to create a replacement categ
law called assimilated law.
• His Majesty’s (HM) Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS):
- It is responsible for courts and tribunals in England and Wales. It administers the courts.
- HMCTS’s reach does not extend to the very top, however, as the CRA 2005 gives special mention t
Supreme Court, which has an independent administrative status. The SC has a senior justice as Pres
and a civil servant as Chief Executive.
• Attorney- General: His role is to assist the government as a whole, which includes answering questio
Parliament and getting clarifications on the law from the COA.
, Statutory
interpretation
,Legal concepts
• Habeas Corpus: You cannot be detained, and deprived of your freedom, unless the law allows it.
• Monarch and Crown: The terms “the sovereign” or “monarch” and “the Crown” are related but
separate meanings. The Crown encompasses both the monarch and the government. It is vested in the
but in general its functions are exercised by Ministers of the Crown accountable to the UK Parliament o
three devolved legislatures
• Equitable remedies:
- Injunctions: A requirement that something be done or not done
- Specific performance: The carrying out of an obligation, usually in relation to land
- Recission: Confirming that a contract no longer exists
- Rectification: Correcting a wrong
- An account of profits: Allowing an innocent party an appropriate share of a wrongdoer’s gains.
• The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875 created a single court structure and merge
separate court systems of equity and the common law.
,• The Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill was passed as the Retained EU Law (Revocation & Re
Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”), which amended the basis of retained EU law to create a replacement categ
law called assimilated law.
• His Majesty’s (HM) Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS):
- It is responsible for courts and tribunals in England and Wales. It administers the courts.
- HMCTS’s reach does not extend to the very top, however, as the CRA 2005 gives special mention t
Supreme Court, which has an independent administrative status. The SC has a senior justice as Pres
and a civil servant as Chief Executive.
• Attorney- General: His role is to assist the government as a whole, which includes answering questio
Parliament and getting clarifications on the law from the COA.
, Statutory
interpretation
