Judiciary

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The Judiciary Branch in England is much like the one in the United States of America. This branch of government deals with the courts. They have unpaid members of the community that listen to small offenses, that are called justices of the peace. Theses people are appointed by the Lord Chancellor. For more serious cases, a Crown Court and a group of local citizens are asked to convict them. Once the convictions are made from the Crown Court, the case goes through the Court of Appeals for the Criminal Division and the final court is the House of Lords. Small civil cases are heard by one judge in a county court. They lawyers in England that practice law, are separated into two groups, the solicitors, and the barristers. The solicitors can handle cases that can be done by paperwork. Barristers physically try cases in court.

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 * This is a group of Lawyers ||