Everything about Legal Technicality totally explained
The term
legal technicality is a casual or
colloquial phrase referring to a technical aspect of law. The phrase isn't a
term of art in the
law; it has no exact meaning, nor does it have a legal definition. The words "legal technicality" are often used in a pejorative sense to denote technical aspects of law which result in a legal decision or verdict unfavorable to the
party using the phrase.
Some legal technicalities govern legal procedure, enable or restrict access to courts, and/or enable or limit the discretion of a court in handing down judgment. These are aspects of
procedural law. Other legal technicalities deal with aspects of
substantive law, that is, aspects of the law which articulate specific criteria that a court uses to assess a party's compliance with or violation of, for example, one or more
criminal laws or
civil laws.
United States
In the
United States,
Constitutional guarantees such as those included in the Fourth and Fifth amendments to protect an accused from unreasonable search and seizure or from self-incrimination are sometimes referred to as "technicalities" by critics of court decisions based on them, even though they're foundations of the American legal system rather than obscure fine points. A commonly cited example would be attempted prosecution of a crime that was discovered by illegally obtained evidence. Such cases may be dismissed based on lack of evidence as the illegally obtained evidence wouldn't be allowed to be the basis of the prosecution's case (called the "
fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine). Other procedural "technicalities" arise from
common law as well, for example, the standard procedural defenses of
laches and
estoppel applicable within civil law.
Some examples of technical aspects of legal procedure are:
Time constraints, including Statutes of limitations
Statute of frauds
Miranda Warning
Rules of evidence
Various immunities, such as Sovereign immunity, Diplomatic immunity
Rules of appellate procedureFurther Information
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