Civil Law

• Contract law- phone bills being wrongly charged, holiday company not giving you what you signed and paid for, buying a car that has faulty issues.

• Tort law- neglegence to children safety, newspaper article falsely printing stories.

• Family law- custody of children, dividing posessions between people through a divorce.

Those who bring cases to court are called a claimant. This is when people claim against a company/Individual. These take place in the County or High court.

 Types of cases that can appear in criminal courts are: Murder, theft, arson, assault and battery, manslaughter and gross neglegence.

GBH with intention is the most extreme from of grevious bodily harm. Plain GBH is when someone loses it for a split second and reacts violently.

Fraud- property crime/ Accounting fraud-lying about profits to investors.

Criminal law cases go to the Crown and Magistrates court.

House of Commons

• Elect members
• Citizens in the UK with a british passport
• Those with a mental illness are not allowed
• Most people in the House of Commons will become Lords

House of Lords

• Need a title ( lord, lady, baron, baroness)
• Usually through their family name and background

Parliament

• They have the highest authority in terms of legal cases
• Create, change and remove laws
• check the work of the government

Government

• Rougly 100 members fo the political party
• MP's- Liberal democrats and conservatives ( coalition)

Green papers - A document on what the government want and all the views are put forward

White papers- following this the government will procede to publish a white paper whith the final proposal for the new law.

Consultative documents:

Green paper- Rough draft / White paper - formal consultation