Across
- 3. Discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it.
- 5. A writtern request that parliment take action
- 6. Two legislative houses or chambers.
- 10. A judge's incidental expression of opinion, not essential to the decision and not establishing precedent.
- 13. The highest judicial court in a country or state.
- 16. A civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.
- 17. A proposed law to be considered by parliment
- 18. A procedure for resloving a dispute that is less formal than a court hearing'
- 20. An act of a legislature that declares, proscribes, or commands something; a specific law, expressed in writing.
Down
- 1. A court decision that is cited as an example or analogy to resolve similar questions of law in later cases.
- 2. The meetings of the leader of the government and the most senior state ministers
- 4. To use the executive power of a Governor to forgive a person convicted of a crime
- 7. a court in some states that has a designated jurisdiction usually both civil and criminal within the limits of a county.
- 8. States of australia unite
- 9. The basis of predecedent, where inferior courts stand by the decisions of superior courts
- 11. For which a grand jury rules that there is enough evidence to charge defendant with a felony.
- 12. An act of parliment or piece of delegated legislation
- 14. The authority of the monarch represented by a the governer genral.
- 15. Is a written order signed by a court authorizing a law-enforcement officer to conduct a search, seizure, or arrest.
- 19. Means to nullify, void or declare invalid.