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Judges act within the law (and may change it - see ‘do judges make laws? below’), but they are independent. Judicial independence is a key principle of our constitution. It means that judges decide cases according to their own judgement, without any outside influence - including from the Government. What types of case do judges deal with?
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make legally sound decisions We’ve updated this guidance keeping in mind our target audience of reasonably well-informed and interested junior administrators1 whose task is to make decisions...
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Aug 4, 2010 · Who, What, Why: How do judges decide on sentences? 4 August 2010. Judges look at a number of factors before sentencing. A man found guilty of trying to sell a valuable book was jailed for...
Jul 1, 2010 · Framing judicial decision-making through the prism of Legal Realism highlights the degree to which judges are important to economic policy and the large amount of discretion they have to shape it, Stephenson says.
The course starts by explaining how judges make factual findings from evidence, how they choose how a case should be decided, and how they explain their thinking. Key to all of these processes is the law, which influences judges at every stage.
The chapter explores the reasons for legal uncertainty and examines the constraints that control judicial decision-making. Law is uncertain because it is necessarily general and its application in any particular case depends upon the context.
In this section we look at the numerous ways in which judges are restrained and which together, ensure that judges are accountable for their actions. We must first ask what it means to say someone is accountable for their actions.
