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*** As well, our highest Court, the High Court, is named after the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (Which ironically consists of about 3 different courts), which is equivalent to the New York State Supreme Court (There's the Court of Appeals on top, and then the House of Lords, now the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. I like the old name.) The English High Court doesn't deal with Criminal cases; the Crown Court does. The Australian High Court can and does deal with Criminal cases routinely. Has your mind exploded yet?
**** And that doesn't count appeals to the European Court of Human Rights. It was much easier in the 1920s when the highest court was Lords.
** And don't get me started on Brazil, possibly the biggest aversion to this trope ever. Due to the lack, until very recently,{{when}} of Erga Omnes<ref>basically, the power to make a decision be binding for all similar cases</ref> in supreme court decisions in Brazil, any judgment or 'precedent' made by the court was valid only for that specific case only! So virtually anyone who had the money and patience could and would keep making appeals all the way up to the supreme court. And why would they want to do that, you might ask? Simple: if you're not on trial for a violent crime or haven't been convicted of a previous one, you don't have to go jail until your final appeal... which can take over a decade. Sometimes, allowing for enough time to pass and the stature of limitations to kick in. [http://www.stf.jus.br/portal/cms/verTexto.asp?servico=estatistica&pagina=movimentoProcessual No wonder the court judges over 100.000 cases per annum]!
* [[Wrongful Accusation Insurance]]: In Real Life, there are two things wrong with this scenario:
*# If someone has been successfully framed for a serious crime, they most likely aren't free to investigate it. They're in jail.
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