The Courts and Legal Professionals

Response 1

            A supranational court is defined as a judicial system that expresses its decisions transversely boundaries and is supposed to have a higher legal standard than decisions made in individual states. This concept is at times used as a description of the European Union regarding it as a new political unit. There are two major objectives of supranational courts one of them being service to assist the provision of individual citizens who have worn out all their legal means of redress but still felt that they were wronged by the justice mechanism of a given nation. The other objective is to offer services to hold responsible some of the international law violations to a higher standard than it is on domestic level courts. The only possible solution for the Rome Statue is through ratification if only is agreed on and signed into confederation between the Romans and the United States.

Response 2

            In the recent years, it is evident that the judicial independence has been referred to as one of the major values of the justice system. The judicial structure, therefore, is an essential idea of division of powers (Dammer & Albanese 2004). One of the major factors that obstruct this principle is the manner in which the media can expose a case. It is practically essential that personal judges are impartial as well as independent of all the external forces so that those that come before them and the public, in general, have confidence in them and that their cases will be judged fairly. Judges own interest is another type of factor that impedes this principle as it is their right to judge the case basing on the evidence presented before them by the parties in relation to the law and not on their own interest.

References

    Dammer, H., & Albanese, J. (2004). Comparative Criminal Justice System (5th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.