courts of the United Kingdom

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court system judicial system

The courts of the United Kingdom are the judiciary bodies that apply and interpret the law across England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, including both lower courts and higher appellate courts such as the Supreme Court.

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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
courts of the United Kingdom canonical	6
judiciary of the United Kingdom	4
Judiciary of the United Kingdom	2
Scottish courts	2
United Kingdom courts	2
British courts	1
Courts and Tribunals of the United Kingdom	1
Courts of Northern Ireland	1
Law Courts	1
Scottish court system	1
UK judicial authorities	1
United Kingdom appellate judiciary	1
courts of England and Wales	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	court system ⓘ judicial system ⓘ
appliesLawIn	England and Wales ⓘ Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ
appliesLegalSystem	English law ⓘ Northern Ireland law ⓘ Scots law (to a limited extent) ⓘ surface form: Scots law
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
hasFeature	hierarchical structure of lower and higher courts ⓘ independent judiciary ⓘ separation between civil and criminal courts ⓘ
hasJurisdictionOver	administrative law matters ⓘ civil law matters ⓘ constitutional law matters ⓘ criminal law matters ⓘ
hasPart	courts of the United Kingdom self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: courts of England and Wales courts of Northern Ireland ⓘ courts of Scotland ⓘ
highestCourt	Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ
includesCourt	Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland ⓘ Court of Appeal of England and Wales ⓘ Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland ⓘ Court of Session (in peerage matters) ⓘ surface form: Court of Session Crown Court of England and Wales ⓘ surface form: Crown Court Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland ⓘ surface form: Crown Court in Northern Ireland High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland ⓘ High Court of Justice of England and Wales ⓘ High Court of Justiciary ⓘ Justice of the Peace courts in Scotland ⓘ Sheriff courts of Scotland ⓘ Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ County courts of England and Wales ⓘ surface form: county courts of England and Wales Magistrates' courts of England and Wales ⓘ surface form: magistrates' courts in Northern Ireland Magistrates' courts of England and Wales ⓘ surface form: magistrates' courts of England and Wales
interprets	Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly ⓘ Acts of Parliament ⓘ surface form: Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Acts of the Scottish Parliament ⓘ Acts of Senedd Cymru ⓘ surface form: Acts of the Senedd Cymru
overseenBy	Judicial Office for England and Wales ⓘ Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service ⓘ Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service ⓘ
relatedTo	legal profession in the United Kingdom ⓘ tribunals of the United Kingdom ⓘ
replaced	Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: Appellate Committee of the House of Lords
subjectTo	rule of law ⓘ
usesLanguage	English ⓘ Irish in Northern Ireland ⓘ Scottish Gaelic in Scotland ⓘ Welsh in Wales ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: courts of the United Kingdom
Description of subject: The courts of the United Kingdom are the judiciary bodies that apply and interpret the law across England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, including both lower courts and higher appellate courts such as the Supreme Court.

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Acts of Parliament → interpretedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

Scots law (to a limited extent) → appliesTo → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

subject surface form: Scots law

this entity surface form: Scottish courts

Northern Ireland → judicialSystem → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Courts of Northern Ireland

courts of the United Kingdom → hasPart → courts of the United Kingdom self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: courts of England and Wales

Acts of the Scottish Parliament → interpretedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Scottish courts

President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom → isPartOf → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: judiciary of the United Kingdom

Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland → courtSystem → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Courts and Tribunals of the United Kingdom

Crown-in-Parliament → recognisedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: United Kingdom courts

UK GI scheme → enforcedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

Slave Trade Act 1843 → enforcedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: British courts

Constitution of the United Kingdom → enforcedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

Constitution of the United Kingdom → interpretedBy → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: judiciary of the United Kingdom

Sheriff courts of Scotland → partOf → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Scottish court system

superior courts of the Isle of Man → relatedTo → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Judiciary of the United Kingdom

judicial branch of the Isle of Man → cooperatesWith → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: UK judicial authorities

Royal Courts of Justice → alsoKnownAs → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Law Courts

European Communities Act 1972 → appliedTo → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

Lord Mance → worksIn → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe → partOf → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Judiciary of the United Kingdom

Lord Justice → partOf → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: judiciary of the United Kingdom

The Right Honourable Lady Justice → usedIn → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: United Kingdom appellate judiciary

UKSC → partOf → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

subject surface form: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

this entity surface form: judiciary of the United Kingdom

Guernsey courts → independentFrom → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ

this entity surface form: United Kingdom courts

Guernsey courts → cooperatesWith → courts of the United Kingdom ⓘ