We left the hotel at 830 this morning and headed to the Old Bailey Crown Court. We met our guide and he gave us a short history if the court. It used to be a prison as well as an area were people were publicly executed. After he finished we went in and watched a case. It was different them the magistrates court that we saw last Tuesday. The lawyers and judge wore wigs, but not the huge ones. They were very small and flat. We listened to a rape case but it was going really slow and we were not to sure what was going in in the case.
After we left we went to the international studies abroad office for a lecture from Dr. Thomas MacManus. He discussed with us some of the differences between law in the U.K. and U.S. for example the U.K. does not have a constitution that they follow. They kind of just follow tradition. The other interesting thing he told us was that citizens have the power of arrest (citizens arrest) and the power to prosecute that person. There is much more but it would be a lot to type on my phone. I have most of what he said saved in my phone so i can use it when I write my reflection paper. Tomorrow we go to Paris!!!! Should be exciting!!!! Sorry there is no pictures we were not able have cameras with us today.
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