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I am an outsider to both the US and the UK legal system, and living in Austria have grown up in a legal system very similar to the German one. From this perspe
by anonymouz 14y ago
I am an outsider to both the US and the UK legal system, and living in Austria have grown up in a legal system very similar to the German one.
From this perspective your last sentence struck me as odd, since, for example, I distinctly remember the UK settling a very high profile corruption case with BAE [1]. Maybe it does not happen that often, but it still seems to be problematic in some cases.
[1] http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2010/02/bae-too-good-a-deal-says-chair-of-anti-bribery-group.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2010/02/bae-...
- BjoernKW 14y agoThere are limits to plea bargains in the UK. One such limit is that a bargain can only be made if prosecutor and defendant agree upon the defendant pleading guilty on some charges while the remaining charges are dropped. Moreover, the court still has to decide on the appropriate penalty (considering only the charges that haven't been dropped, of course), that is there is no binding agreement on penalty between prosecution and defendant. Plea bargaining does happen in the UK and can be problematic in those cases but it's nowhere near as excessive as in the US.
- gsnedders 14y agoThat's under English law. Under Scots law and Northern Irish law there are no plea bargains.