The government versus the defendant.
CIVIL Law and CRIMINAL Law.
No. They are two entirely different types of law.
Criminal and Civil
the two main categories of Law are criminal and civil. Civil is dealing with things such as divorce and is tried in county court and the crown court civil division. Criminal Law is dealing with crimes from theft to murder and things which break the laws outline by whatever country you live in. These crimes are tried in magistrates and crown court. Both can appeal to the high court and the supreme court if allowed a route to appeal.
There is no correlation between the two.
Libel Law and Criminal Law deals with two different concerned crime areas. Libel laws are meant to monetarily compensate people for damage to their reputations.On the other hand, Criminal law is a system of law to punish the person who commits crime. In USA, responsibility for criminal law & justice is shared between states and the federal government. There are many practice areas that deals with different types of crimes. I am also a criminal law attorney at Barhoma Law PC and handle criminal law cases in California state.
In criminal law there are many schools of thought and theories that conflict depending on which area you are referring to. There are basic sides of criminal law the prosecution and the defense and with those divides there are many different theories of how to handle evidence, testimony, interviewing witnesses and charges to be filed.
Criminal law concerns charges of crimes made against a person by the state. The remaining law is considered civil law, and is between two private individuals or entities.
The two types of legal disputes are 1) Criminal - Public Law 2) Civil - Private Law If A assaults B. A can be prosecuted for criminal act - punished by state (Public Law action) B can claim damages from A (Private Law action)
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criminal
If one is interested in criminal law, there are many different sections. It is divided into two parts. Part one had seven sections. There are thirteen sections in total.