JSB173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shoplifting
Document Summary
Accused persons enter the court system via their contact with police through an arrest, summons or notice to appear pathway. Indictable offences: relatively minor, public order offences or shoplifting, lower courts, serious offences, rape, murder, assault or armed robbery, district/county and supreme courts (higher courts) The magistrates court is a lower court that is presided over by magistrate. Their roles include summary of criminal jurisdiction, committal jurisdiction, civil jurisdiction and making order. In the mc, the setting is less formal than the higher courts and is a summary procedure that requires no jury. In queensland, 95% of criminal cases are heard in mc. When discussing the intermediate and higher courts, there are two distinct courts that comprise this sector. There is the district/country court, which deals with indictable offences and is considered an intermediate court, and then the supreme court which handles cases that involve murder, manslaughter, and serious drug offences.
