Background and the Judicary and Parliament

Background 

• Courts of Appeal And Crimminal DIvisions, hear appeals from lower courts
• The Hight Court, deals with civil disputes
• The Supreme Court, mainly interpretations of the law
• They decide whether rule of law has been abused
• They make law/ interpretate law, regina v jogee 2016, rewrote the law on joint enterprise
• They enforce common law, murder
• They also conduct judicial review, M vs Home office 1993, 2013 15,000 applications made 
• They conduct public inquiries
• Macpherson Inquiry 1999, to examine handling of a murder case
• Hutton inquiry 2003, look into suicide of David Kelly
• Leveson inquiry 2012, to look into phone hacking scandal 
• Gibson Inquiry, 2013, look into alligations of torture on UK intelligence
• Constitutional Reform Act, made judges apopointed not lords and gave supreme court more power 

The Judicary And Parliament 

• Parliament is more powerful ,2010 terrorist asset freezing act passed in Parliament to bypass the supreme court saying they cant…