Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The English
Legal System
- Types of Law
- Criminal
- Object: to regulate society by
the threat of punishment
- Purpose: the enforcement of particular
forms of behaviour by the State, which
acts to ensure compliance
- Burden of Proof: lies with
the State to show guilt
beyond reasonable doubt
- Civil
- Object: usually financial
compensation to put the claimant
in the position he would have been
in had the wrong not occurred
- Purpose: to settle disputes between
individuals and to provide remedies
- Burden of proof: lies with the
claimant to show liability on
the balance of probabilities
- Court Structures
- Criminal
- Supreme Court
- Court of Appeal
- Crown/High Court
- Magistrate
- Civil
- European Court of
Justice (ECJ)
- European Court of
Human Rights (ECtHR)
- Supreme Court
- Court of Appeal
- County/High Court
- Sources of Law