Deficiencies in national and local legal systems

National and local legal systems can be deficient in a number of ways. Law enforcement systems can be inadequate. Enforcement officers can be ill-equipped to enforce laws or corrupt. The general public can be opposed to or unsupportive of law enforcement. Judiciary systems can be corrupt, undertrained or overloaded. Law faculties may be insufficient or may offer poor training. Law libraries may be inadequate for schools, judges, lawyers and other auxiliaries of justice. Judges and other court officials may be untrained or undertrained. Laws and courts may be inadequate, confusing or obscure. Legal material may be uncollected and poorly classified. Prisons may be understaffed or poorly staffed. Systems of punishment may be in violation of human rights conventions or incapable of being equitable.

1. Social underdevelopment
2. Ineffective legal system
3. Inadequate laws
4. Deficiency
5. Deficiencies of developing countries

1. Unjust trials
2. Underdevelopment of legal infrastructure
3. Outdated judicial precedent
4. Martial law
5. Incompetent judges
6. Inadequate prison conditions and penal systems
7. Inadequate national law enforcement
8. Inadequate legislation for animal welfare
9. Excessive leniency in sentencing of offenders
10. Deficiencies in the criminal justice system
11. Deficiencies in civil justice systems
12. Biased appointment of judges
13. Alienating judicial procedures

1. Wrongful detention
2. Unethical practices in the legal system
3. Statutory instability
4. Political repression
5. Inequality before the law
6. Exploitation of regulatory loopholes in countries with underdeveloped legislation

1. Improving legal systems

1. Nonlocal
2. Illegality
3. Deficiency