SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Murder Of Travis Alexander, Inquisitorial System, Adversarial System
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(cid:498)when in rome do as the romans do(cid:499) Laws, courts, trials and legal systems differ around the world. Civil law and the inquisitorial system: central and south america, western and eastern europe, a little bit in asia. Common law system underlies the adversarial system of courts: predominant in north america, uk, australia. Soviet legal systems: much don(cid:495)t exist today technically abolished, countries may have remnants of the system. Muslim law legal system: middle east, certain countries in africa. No true pure adversarial system or islamic system, in reality legal systems are mixed and lean towards one way. The prosecution examines them, and then the defense lawyer gets to cross-examine the witness after this the prosecution can re-examine the witness (several days) Only evidence of (cid:494)fact(cid:495) (no hearsay) is allowed: nothing you though you heard or something you thought, only facts of the case.
