nature of law AO1

• legal rule - tell us what to do and creates rights
• legal principles - the underlying reasons why we have the rules
• criminal - public, bop on p, beyond reasonable doubt
• civil law - private, bop on c, balence of probabilities
• 1215 - magna carta
• 1998 - human rights act
• 2009 - creation of the supreme court
• common law - judges make law, adversarial trials, some evidence is inadmissable, judges make law
• civil law - statutes, inquisitorial trials, all evidence used, judges don't make law
• rule of law - dicey - no man is above the law, habeas corpus, judicial decisions protect right of citizens
• habeas corpus - no punishment without the law
• plato - the law is the master of gov and the gov is the slave
• aristotole - the rule of law is prefereable to that of any individual
• entick v carrington - the power of the state is limited to what the law allows