Legal System

In this lecture we learned a lot about the legal system in the UK and how the court system operates. The lecture and the walking tour combined provided great deal of information and gave us a good visual of the life of a person working in the court system. It was interesting to learn all the differences between the US and UK legal systems. The two most interesting difference between the US and the UK law is that the UK doesn’t have a written constitution. The closest document to our constitution is the Human Rights Act, and the UKs stance on murder. The UK court system doesn’t have a death penalty or degrees of murder. Another intriguing fact was that in the UK court system, the judge and lawyers have to wear wigs and robes. It was interesting to pass by the Ravenscroft store, which displayed various wigs; this gave a great visual of the attire worn. The lecturer was very opinionated and spoke about how the American legal system was more complex than the UKs as well as stating various times that we stole ideas from the United Kingdoms legal system. Although the lecturer was very entertaining and cracked many sarcastic jokes, I think his lecture would have been hard to follow with out attending the walking tour.