A powerpoint About Justice

2. Civil And Criminal Law
• Civil law is about the rights and duties of people and if
they have arguments using the law to solve the problem.
• Some problems are: Lending and borrowing
money, entering into contracts, arguments with
neighbours and marriage issues.
• Criminal law is about criminal offences which could be
offences against society.
• It deals with things like: Murder, stealing, assault and
rape.

3. Making The law
• For a request to become a bill and then a official law it has
to go through a long process.
• First a bill gets looked at and people speak about what
the law should say then they look and question people
who this law could affect and then it goes through a long
process in parliament.
• Here is a video explaining it all.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ni-h8R2d0&NR=1

4. Who is who
• You are probably thinking who are certain people in law and what
do they do? Here is what they do.
• Barrister & Solicitor: A part of the legal court in England and Wales is
made up of barristers and solicitors. In history, a line divided the two
jobs. With some exceptions, access to the courts rests in the hands of
the barrister. The solicitor then has virtually exclusive access to the
client in court.
• Jury: A body of people (usually twelve)who have to say what they
think about a legal and the evidence given to them in court.
• Judge: An official who decides cases in a court of law.
• Magistrate: An officer who administers the law for example someone
who works in a court that deals with minor offenses.
• Probation officer: Officers who play a role in the criminal justice
system by supervising offenders who have been released from
incarceration(when someone is imprisoned)
• Court Clerk: A British English clerk to the court

5.  Controversial law is a law that some people in
parliament and outside of parliament don’t
agree with like the death penalty.
 Country’s will either abolish it or use it but
only in extreme murder or serial killer cases.
 Here is some information about it.

6. • Death penalty is when you have committed crime so bad that
the only consequences is death.
• In history the death penalty has been used a lot for example:
Hanging, Electric Chair, Decapitation, Gas Chamber, Firing
Squad and Lethal Injection.
• Some countries like Canada have abolished the Death Penalty
because people complained against use of it in the past.
• Very few country’s still use the Death Penalty but these days

7. Reasons For Death Penalty
• Some family members of crime victims may take years or
decades to recover from the shock and loss of a loved one.
Some even may never recover. One of the things that
sometimes makes people feel better (like revenge) is if the
person who committed the crime is dead.
• Prisoner parole or escapes can give criminals another chance
to kill. Which is probably the biggest reason to keep the death
penalty.
• It helps with the problem of over populated prisons because, a
few people will die and that will make more space.

8. Reasons Against Death Penalty
The death penalty goes against our most basic human right -
the right to life
Being killed by a lethal injection or being electrocuted is not
always smooth and painless, sometimes it causes a painful
death
No-one has ever proven with numbers that killing murderers
stops other people committing similar crimes
Mistakes are sometimes made in the law - what if someone
is killed who is actually innocent?

9. Dear Malcolm Wicks,
I am writing to you about being able to vote at 16. I think
that at 16 you have a lot of responsibility and voting should
be one of them. If at 16 you can work full time legally, you
should be able to choose who you would like to make
changes to your job and the country.
Also at 16 you are allowed to leave home without your
parents consent which should therefore mean that they get
to vote and choose a prime minister who will help keep
streets safer and give them a better style of life.
Active Citizen(Extension)