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Adversarial and Inqusitorial legal systems

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Assignment 1: Identify the main distinguishing features of Adversarial system from Inquisitorial. Critically discuss what would be the main benefits or detriments of adopting the continental inquisitorial procedure in English law? Introduction: It is an established fact that all the civilized societies must embrace some degree of order to allow members of the society to flourish and interact over a sustained period of time; this is one of the most vivid and pivotal features of a normal society. The ways and procedures of adopting the order may not be universal and vary from one society to another. Order in a society is only achieved by introducing "an obligatory rule of conduct" known as Law. Law is the formal mechanism of social control1. Every law requires a particular legal system to run, carry out and to implement the main body of rules and regulation incorporated in any law, this the point when any...

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