A legal drama is a work of dramatic fiction about crime and civil litigation. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Subtypes of legal dramas include courtroom dramas and legal thrillers, and come in all forms, including novels, television shows, and films. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of Law & Order. Most crime drama focus on crime investigation and does not feature court room.
It is widely believed by most practicing lawyers that legal dramas result in the general public having misconceptions about the legal process. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person Many of these misconceptions result from the desire to create an interesting story. For example, conflict between parties make for an interesting story, which is why legal dramas emphasize the trial and ignore the fact that the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States are settled out of court. Civil law, as opposed to Criminal law, refers to that branch of Law dealing with disputes between Individuals and/or Organizations, in which The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies of rules in different Jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Legal dramas also focus on situations where there is an obvious injustice or ones in which either the plaintiff or defendant is very interesting and unusual. A plaintiff ( Π in Legal shorthand) also known as a claimant or complainant, is the party who initiates a Lawsuit A defendant or defender ( Δ in Legal shorthand) is any party who is required to answer the Complaint of a Plaintiff As a result, things such as the insanity defense occur far more often in legal drama than in real life. In Criminal trials the insanity defenses are possible defenses by Excuse, an Affirmative defense by which Defendants argue that Finally, legal dramas often focus on areas of the legal process which can be portrayed dramatically, such as oral arguments, and ignore areas which are less easily portrayed, such as researching a written legal brief. Oral arguments are spoken presentations to a Judge or Appellate court by a Lawyer (or parties when representing themselves of the legal reasons
See also
- Television shows that fall into this category
- Films that fall into this category
Subgenres
The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a Police force as they investigate Crimes This is a list of police shows. Dramas involving police work detectives secret agents and the justice system have been a mainstay of broadcast television since the early Crime fiction is the Genre of Fiction that deals with Crimes their detection criminals and their motives It is usually distinguished from Detective fiction is a branch of Crime fiction in which a Detective (or detectives either professional or amateur investigate a crime usually Murder Crime comics are a Genre of American Comic books that were popular in the 1940s and 1950s A whodunit or whodunnit (for "Who done it?" is a complex plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interestDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic