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- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
The problem with this approach is that I will sooner or later imagine the cow as a cube. A cowube, if you will.
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 1 week ago:
The legal systems you find in the US (since some states I understand do things a bit differently) are largely based on the common law legal system of England and Wales.
Scotland and Northern Ireland are different jurisdictions. NI is a broadly similar system to EW but with its own laws, but the Scottish system is more different; they operate on Scots law, which is kind of a hybrid of common law and European style civil law.
Now, it would be hard for me to type on my phone an overview of the entire legal system of England and Wales because it - by itself - is essentially 4 legal systems in a trenchcoat that were smushed together in a car accident, but here’s an overview of the big differences you’d find in the criminal system.
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The first thing you’d notice after you were arrested is that you don’t get a lawyer; you get a solicitor. Here, there are two types of lawyers. Solicitors are the basically the people who handle everything that isn’t related to arguing in court. If it comes to court, your lawyer will hire a barrister for you. Barristers (so called because they are admitted “to the bar”, like US lawyers) are arguing-in-court specialists. These days some solicitors can argue in court, and some barristers can take clients directly, but this is still rare.
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Next a lawyer (usually a barrister) at the Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether or not you will be charged. The CPS is I guess the Law and Order equivalent of the District Attorney’s office, except we don’t elect a District Attorney. The head of the CPS is technically appointed by the government, but is basically appointed by a committee of lawyers and civil servants.
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No grand juries here. If you’re charged, you go straight to trial.
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If the crime is low level enough (like less than £1000 find or less than 6 months in gaol or something like that) you go to Magistrate’s Court. A magistrate is basically a volunteer who isn’t a lawyer, but they will have a lawyer whispering in their ear. There will be three of them and there won’t be a jury. The idea behind this is that the magistrates are trusted members of the community (and they do get an amount of training), so it’s kind of like you have a permanent mini-jury on hand, but many lawyers don’t like the system.
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For a more serious crime, you end up in Crown Court. Crown Court will usually have a judge and jury. If the crimi is extremely national security sensitive, and they can convince the judge that this is the case, then the judge may decide that you don’t get a jury. On the other hand, in most cases, you can decide that you don’t want a jury. None of our judges are elected; they are appointed by another committee and they are almost all former barristers.
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After that the system looks broadly similar. Next up is the Court of Appeal of England and Wales where there will be a few senior judges. They decide matters of law but do not second guess facts decided by jury. And then after that is the United Kingdom Supreme Court (for we all share one).
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- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 3 weeks ago:
I thought you were referencing this bit by comedian James Caster: youtu.be/Zt5qJC1xQ8A
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
I daresay there’s a few people out there who might enjoy going into the sewers to manually remove the fatbergs, but probably not enough.
- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 1 month ago:
And also they both had stupid moustaches.
- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 1 month ago:
There is no such thing as a non-ideological political decision, and the only people who think there is are the people who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in the prevailing ideology that they are incapable of seeing it as anything other than “common sense”.
- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 1 month ago:
Rivers of blood was Enoch Powell, a Conservative (plus ça change). Oswald Mosley was the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
- Comment on The original Lemmy shitpost 1 month ago:
Is this Lemmy’s “the cylinder must remain unharmed”?
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
When I read “nutritional hexes” I assumed this would be honeycomb related.
- Comment on cool 2 months ago:
Yikes.
- Comment on An old excuse 2 months ago:
Have you heard of the doctrine of universal reconciliation?
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 2 months ago:
The third one was mostly ruined by the fact that Sofia Coppola couldn’t act. The scenes between her and Andy Garcia were verging on painful to watch. But yes, the bits of the film that were about Michael were good, actually.
- Comment on Tune a fish 3 months ago:
One makes hideous sounds when I try to play it as a musical instrument, and the other I can play reasonably competently.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 months ago:
The branding of ploughman’s lunch was invented in the 60s but that same Wikipedia page states it had been a common meal for rural labourers for centuries.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 3 months ago:
Come on now, OP. What ever other criticism you may level at that sandwich, you can’t say that cheese and raw onion is lacking in flavour.
- Comment on Anon discusses cinema. 3 months ago:
Lol, I guess I should have expected that response. 🤦♀️
I ask because I feel like your characterisation of The Shawshank Redemption could equally apply to The Godfather (if you replace good guy with protagonist) and I think they are equivalently great films. It’s just that one film is about how a normal (presumably innocent) man descends into evil and cruelty due to his circumstances and unfortunate events, the other is about a man who maintains his inner light despite his circumstances and unfortunate events. While you may or may not find one more compelling than the other, I think they are both equally special in their way.
- Comment on Anon discusses cinema. 3 months ago:
How do you feel about The Godfather, if I may ask?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
tweets 2 hours a day
- Comment on dating 4 months ago:
Cheddar? I hardly know her!
- Comment on Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity 4 months ago:
Is Thunderf00t still going? I can’t wait to hear his take on this.
- Comment on Our lord and savior 4 months ago:
He looks upset. I’m sure a Baby Ruth would cheer him up.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
No one can say this isn’t the place for it.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 5 months ago:
You forgot “fuckin’ magnets”.
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 5 months ago:
I have worked in tech since 2011 and I’m definitely looking for a way out. Don’t think I’m cut out for farming though.
- Comment on What did I forget? 5 months ago:
Nah, you’re thinking of Switzerland.
- Comment on Radon 6 months ago:
I write code. ✔️ Real job. I chop down trees. ❌ Bullshit job.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 6 months ago:
Ferengii, but the second i is silent.
- Comment on The word "slop" has been taken full circle 6 months ago:
That’s not full circle, that’s half a circle.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 6 months ago:
Scamming a bunch of NFT idiots is an arguably better funding model than promising a bunch of stuff to Kickstarter backers that you aren’t going to deliver on.
- Comment on I approve 6 months ago:
You pronounce those differently?
