
- •1.Introduction
- •2. “Justice, law, legal system”. The definition of these terms.
- •3. The crown
- •4.Executive power
- •4.1The United Kingdom Government
- •4.2 Devolved national administrations
- •5.Legislatures
- •5.1 Uk Parliament
- •5.2 Devolved national legislatures
- •6.Judiciary
- •6.1 Judicial Independence
- •6.2 Judicial Neutrality
- •6.3 Judicial Supremacy
- •6.4 Systems of law
- •7.Electoral system
- •8.Political parties
- •8.1 Conservatives(Tories)
- •8.2 Labour
- •8.3 Liberal Democrats
- •8.4 Scottish and Welsh Nationalists
- •8.5 Northern Ireland parties
- •8.6 Other Parliamentary parties
- •8.8 Current Political landscape
- •9.Local government
- •10. European union
- •1.The conclusion
1.The conclusion
So in this work we spoke about justice and the law, the legal system of Great Britain. . The object of this work was the legislation of Great Britain. The subject was the peculiarities of the British legislation system. The aim was to learn about this peculiarities.
We learnt what such terms as justice, law and legal system are meant.
Here contains the information about the Crown, the executive and legislative powers, about the judicial system of Great Britain, electoral system. We can also read that Britain has different political parties. Broadly speaking, there is the information about everything, which is connected with the legislation of Great Britain.
We knew that The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. It has either a king or a queen- as its Head of State, but the power of the monarch is limited by the constitution. In practice, the monarch reigns but does not rule. The legal authority is given to Parliament. Parliament is the supreme law-making body in the country. It consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. British parliamentary system is one of the oldest in the world. While reading about the Parliament, we’ve got acquainted with the law making process, with each stage of this process.
Here we also read about the judicial system of Great Britain. Judiciary is independent from executive and legislative powers. In this part of my work I developed such terms as “judicial independence”, “judicial neutrality”, “judicial supremacy” and covered the information about three distinct system of laws. It occurs, that The United Kingdom does not have a single legal system due to it being created by the political union of previously independent countries with the terms of the Treaty of Union guaranteeing the continued existence of Scotland's separate legal system.
This work also contains the information about various electoral systems, which are used in the UK: the first- past-the- post system, the plurality- at- large voting, the additional member system, the single transferable vote system, the alternative vote system, the party-list proportional representation system, the supplementary vote. Here we can find the description of all these systems.
And of course, if we speak about the legal system, it is necessary to give some information about different political parties. Britain has a lot of political parties, but only three of them currently dominate the national political landscape in the country. These are the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, and the Liberal Democrats. That is why the main attention in this work is to them. Here also contains the brief description of less popular political parties .
And to summarize all the information, I can say that Great Britain has a very complicated legal system. It is because Britain, first of all ,the country of traditions.
British law comes from two main sources: laws made in Parliament (usually drawn up by government departments and lawyers), and Common Law , which is based on previous judgements and customs. Just as there is no written constitution, so England and Wales have no criminal code or civil code and the interpretation of the law is based on what has happened in the past.
It is necessary to know some information about the legal system, justice and law of any foreign country(in our case of Great Britain), because we must respect laws of other countries…But how we can respect them if we won’t know about them…