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  • žHaving a court hierarchy gives people the ability to appeal to a higher court, if you felt the trial had been unfair.
  • žIt also provides efficient distribution of resources and specialisation. Meaning would all cases have an ability to be heard on the one day. Suppose there is a case about some stolen DVD's, and another case about a murder, the murder case would have to wait because the stolen DVD case would have been booked in first.
  • žAnother reason for court hierarchy would be you will get a magistrate that would be dealing with similar cases, thus giving an effective punishment than a magistrate who had been dealing with a murder trial.
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