There are two big parts of English law, which there will be shortly discribed: civil and public law. Civil law concerns disputes among citizens within a country, and public law deals with lawsuits between citizens and the state, or between one state and another.
The main differences of public and civil law are:
1.The prosecution must prove the guilt of a criminal "beyond reasonable doubt", otherwise, the plaintiff in a civil suit can prove his case "on the balance of probabilities";
2.In a civil law a private person can bring a criminal prosecution against another person, whereas criminal actions are almost always started by the state;
3.In a criminal trial evidence is not necessarily admissable, but in a civil action about the same matter it is.
Evenmore, there are many point of contact between criminal and civil law. The standart of proof in the civil case is lower than it was in the criminal case, that means, that the guilty defendant in a criminal action have a little chances to avoid civil liability about the same matter.
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