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Some legal technicalities govern legal procedure, enable or restrict access to courts, and / or enable or limit the discretion of a court in handing down judgment.

These are aspects of procedural law.

Other legal technicalities deal with aspects of substantive law, that is, aspects of the law which articulate specific criteria that a court uses to assess a party's compliance with or violation of, for example, one or more criminal laws or civil laws.