POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mandatory Retirement, Provincial And Territorial Courts In Canada, United States Territorial Court
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The judiciary has always been associated with the rule adjudication function in the political system. Adjudication can be defined as interpreting the law in cases of dispute, of settling disputes by applying the law to them, or of making a judgment based on the law. A means of reducing the costs of the administration of justice as a whole are the practices of plea- bargaining and pre-trial conferences. The law can be defined as society"s system of binding rules". A civil law regulates relationships between two private parties and if private agreement cannot be. Laws are commonly divided into different categories, primarily civil" and criminal" reached in the case of dispute, one party may take the other to court. Criminal law is primarily a federal responsibility; it is thus more or less uniform throughout the country and has been consolidated in the criminal code.
