In the end, however, schools and universities are not sovereign entities they are still subject to local and national laws. Absurdly Powerful School Jurisdiction: Sometimes Truth in Television, depending on the school and the country in question.Abomination Accusation Attack: Making these is a great way to find yourself receiving a cease-and-desist from the other party's attorney, and if you don't back off or they can demonstrate that they suffered economic harm as the result of inflammatory falsehoods, you have a good shot at finding yourself on the wrong end of a defamation suit.Go back 200 years and chances are court procedures are comparatively sloppy.) As with all Acceptable Breaks from Reality, examples can become particularly egregious, especially when it's the substance of the law, not the procedure, that the creators are obfuscating. (This is common in historical works as most legal systems have been fine-tuned over centuries.

What may seem like an inaccurate portrayal of the legal process by residents of one region may actually be valid legal procedure in another, and vice versa. Laws varies from country to country and between jurisdictions. This causes the legal procedures portrayed in fiction to have little to no correlation with how the process would go down in Real Life. Watching lawyers read mountains of documents and write briefs doesn't make for an enjoyable show, so creators modify the process to be entertaining to the audience. Real litigation or prosecution takes months, not minutes (sometimes years), and almost none of it happens in court. This is a listing of liberties taken with how the law is presented for entertainment. The Simpsons, ' The Springfield Connection'

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