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GCSE Citizenship Studies · key term
A person who provides evidence relevant to a case, helping the police or court establish the facts.
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Paper 2
Revise: Roles Undertaken by Citizens within the Legal SystemCitizens provide evidence, help decide cases, volunteer in policing and hold police leaders to account. Their involvement is pivotal: without witnesses, important facts might never reach a court; without citizen decision-makers, justice would be administered entirely by professionals and the state.
Explain why each role matters: for example, witnesses help establish facts, while jurors use the evidence to reach a verdict.
A victim may also be a witness, but their statement about the impact of the crime has a different purpose from their evidence about what happened.
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