法庭的“身份”
因为不是每个法庭都要遵守其他的法庭对之前案例所做出来的决定,法庭的身份决定了它是要遵守哪些其他法庭的判例法理。网校为学员们准备一个表格,通过这个表格同学们可以清楚的了解到法庭之间的关系。
法庭 | 被哪些法庭所限制 | 限制哪些法庭 |
Magistrates’ Court | High Court The Court of Appeal Supreme Court European Court of Justice |
No one Not even itself |
County Court | High Court The Court of Appeal Supreme Court European Court of Justice |
No one Not even itself |
Crown Court | High Court (QBD) The Court of Appeal Supreme Court European Court of Justice |
No one |
The High Court (Queen’s Bench, Chancery and Family) |
Judge sitting alone: -The Divisional Court - The Court of Appeal -Supreme Court -European Court of Justice |
Judge sitting alone: - Magistrates’ Court - County Court - Crown Court |
Judges sitting together: -Any Divisional Court - The Court of Appeal -Supreme Court -European Court of Justice |
Judges sitting together: - Magistrates’ Court - County Court - Crown Court -Divisional Courts |
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The Court of Appeal | -Own decisions -Supreme Court (subject to an exception below) -European Court of Justice |
-All inferior English courts -Itself (subject to exception) |
Supreme Court for the United Kingdom | -Itself (except in exceptional cases) -European Court of Justice |
-All English Courts -Itself (except in exceptional cases) |
The European Court of Justice | No one Not even itself |
All English Courts |
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