What’s on the Who Does What in Court poster
A 6-row table: Role · Responsible for.
Functions, not job titles: names differ between systems.
- Judge or magistrate — Law, procedure, admissibility and sentence
- Prosecutor — Proving the case, with duties of fairness and disclosure
- Defence lawyer — Testing the case in the client's interest
- Jury or lay bench — Deciding contested questions of fact
- Court staff — Listing, records and the running of the hearing
- Probation service — Pre-sentence reports and supervision proposals
Educational reference. Some systems have no jury and some no lay magistracy; the functions are still allocated somewhere.
Questions about the Who Does What in Court poster
- What’s on the Who Does What in Court poster?
- A 6-row table: Role · Responsible for. Functions, not job titles: names differ between systems. Judge or magistrate — Law, procedure, admissibility and sentence; Prosecutor — Proving the case, with duties of fairness and disclosure; Defence lawyer — Testing the case in the client's interest; Jury or lay bench — Deciding contested questions of fact; Court staff — Listing, records and the running of the hearing; Probation service — Pre-sentence reports and supervision proposals. Educational reference. Some systems have no jury and some no lay magistracy; the functions are still allocated somewhere.
- Who is the Who Does What in Court poster for?
- Who Does What in Court belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning courts & process can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Who Does What in Court poster?
- Use it to work out whose decision a given problem in a case actually was. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Who Does What in Court belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Who Does What in Court?
- Two Trial Traditions, Appeals and Innocence Claims and Bail and Remand sit alongside Who Does What in Court in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Two Trial TraditionsAppeals and Innocence ClaimsBail and Remand
- Is the Who Does What in Court poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Who Does What in Court downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Who Does What in Court poster print at?
- Who Does What in Court is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Who Does What in Court loses nothing.Printing guide
Related posters
Charts that sit alongside Who Does What in Court on the same wall.
Browse every Criminal Justice poster, or start from the full catalogue.