Categorie: Tutti - law - jurisdiction - civil - criminal

da Lamadrid Schrappe Melissa mancano 6 anni

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DROIT

The French legal system is divided into distinct branches of civil and criminal law, each with specialized courts to handle various types of disputes. Civil law is addressed through several courts, including the tribunal d'

DROIT

CIVIL LAW

LIABILITY RULES

WARRANTY

PROPERTY RULES

INTRODUCTION TO LAW

HOW IS LAW IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED?
the Uk example

Private law

county court: minor claims

Tort: <£15,000 Except for personal injury cases where the value of the claim can run up to £50,000

contract: no complex legal issues and value < £15,000

High court

Family division: family dispute

Chancery division: tax, company law and bankruptcy law, trust law

Queen's bench: contract law and torts law suits

Cout of appeal

Supreme Court

the French example

Private Law

Criminal Law

crimes

cour d'assises

delits

tribunal correctionnel

contraventions

Tribunal de police

Civil Law

conseil de prud'hommes

individual disputes between employees or apprentices and employers

Tribunal de commerce

commercial transactions between companies and between individuals

disputes between private persons and traders or between traders and commercial companies

Tribunal d'instance

easy to access (all civil cases)

exclusive jurisdiction for disputes such as unpaid rent.

tribunal de grande instance (+10 000)

civil disputes between private persons not allocated to any other civil court

Public Law

administrative tribunal

court of appeal

conseil d'état

exclusive jurisdiction

elections

cour de cassation

advisory

competent forum?: the legal ability of a court to exert jurisdiction over a person that is the subject of a suit.

ratione loci (geographic criteria)

immovable goods

jurisdiction of the defendant's place of residence

ratione materiae (material criteria)

==> amount of the claims

nature of dispute

exclusive jurisdiction?

specialised competent jurisdiction

the judiciary system: courts = from for disputes to be heard/ jugements to be provided

who is the juge?

specialised jurisdictions lay judges

trade tribunal

labour tribunal

shared principles

2/3 stage procedure

Civil ≠ Criminal proceedure

appeal

also mistakes on the facts

cassation

irregularity in the way in which the case was conducted

mistakes on the law

WHAT IS LAW
Notion of legal system

pluralistic systems

French sources of law (Kelsen's pyramid)

Doctrine

opinions that authors gave in books and articles concerning legal issues.

Jurisprudence

The legal rules repeatedly applied to a specific situation of facts by a higher court

Regulatory acts

arrete secretary of state, mayor or prefect

decret 1st and other ministers

Ordonnance president

French Statutes

Government "project"

parliament "proposition"

European statutes

EU council / EU parliament

directives

regulations

International treaties

principle of reciprocity

Constitution

texts with constitutional value

distribution of power

people's rights

4th republic 1958

written legislation (codified)

based on roman law

commun law

Legal precedents (Jurisprudence)

English Sources of Law

Custmons

established patterns of behaviour that can be verified objectively within a particular social setting.

Equity

allowing courts to use their discretion and apply justice in accordance with natural law. Equity is supposed to add fairness to the implementation of justice. As it consists in the application of “moral” rules

Case Law

Rule of Precedent / Principle of stare decisis: A rule of law established for the first time by a court for a particular case is binding on other judges of lower courts for any other case with similar facts.

Statutes

gov. bodies: secondary legislation

parliament: primary legislation

parliament sovereignity

unmodified constitution

customs/religious legal systems

classification of law

public law

constitutional law

administrative law

private law

commercial law

property law

criminal law

civil law

Who are the subjects?

legal persons

natural persons

notion of rights

Subjective rules

Objective law

notion of law

main features of legal rules

cohesive

by default

mandatory

compensatory sanctions

repressive sanctions

preventive sanctions

external

government

parliament

general and impersonal

influence of ethics morality and religion