A legal recourse is an action that can be taken by an individual or a corporation to attempt to remedy a legal difficulty.
- A lawsuit if the issue is a matter of civil law
- Contracts that require mediation or arbitration before a dispute can go to court
- Referral to police or prosecutor for investigation and possible criminal charges if the matter is a criminal violation
- Petition to a legislature or other law-making body for a change in the law if a law is thought to be unjust.
- Petition to a president or governor or monarch other chief executive or other official with power to pardon.
See also
Legal principles
- Habeas corpus
- Damnum absque injuria, loss without injury
- Arm's length principle
- Sovereign immunity. The immunity of state officials or state entities to torts with respect to its subjects.
Examples
- Arranged marriages may leave the woman without legal recourse.
- Bookies and confidence tricksters rely on the mark being involved in illegal activity[clarification needed] to block legal recourse.
- Victims of bullying may have legal recourse in the United States.
- The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 purportedly leaves consumer groups without legal recourse.
- Diploma mills and essay mills employ various legal techniques to leave their customers without legal recourse.
- In termination of employment, an employee may have legal recourse to challenge such a termination in at-will presumption of employment in the United States.
- Victims of joke theft have little legal recourse, but have occasionally exacted their own vengeance.
- Lynchings
- Military tribunal
- Rumsfeld v. Padilla
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