Across
- 3. A written law passed by a legislative body.
- 4. A judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.
- 5. A law made by parliament.
- 6. A legal proceeding by which a case is brought before a higher court for review of the decision of a lower court.
- 7. A document presented to a house of Parliament by a person or group of people asking for action on a matter.
- 10. The settling of disputes (especially labor disputes) between two parties by an impartial third party, whose decision the contending parties agree to accept.
- 12. The head of the national government, the chief minister in some countries, including Australia.
- 14. To end a session of Parliament without dissolving either House and therefore without a subsequent election.
- 15. A body of rules that delineate private rights and remedies, and govern disputes between individuals in such areas as contracts, property, and Family Law; distinct from criminal or public law.
- 17. A legislative body consisting of two branches, chambers or houses.
- 18. An offence rendering the person who commits it liable to be charged with a serious crime that warrants a trial by jury.
Down
- 1. The signing of a bill by the Governor-General, which is the last step in making a bill into an Act of Parliament, or law.
- 2. A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or another body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice.
- 3. The notion that, in a free society, the Parliament, the executive government and the courts are separate and act independently without interference from each other.
- 8. A principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts.
- 9. A person who has committed a crime.
- 11. A proposal for a new law which has been presented to Parliament.
- 12. An assembly of elected representatives, usually having an upper and a lower house which, with the head of state (the Queen, represented by the Governor-General or Governor), makes the laws for the country or state.
- 13. A special court or group of people who are officially chosen, especially by the government, to examine (legal) problems of a particular type.
- 16. The group of senior ministers in a government.