Civil vs Criminal Trial Made Simple!
Suppose you are in a situation where you feel you have been personally wronged, or you believe that several people have been put at risk. How do you take legal action? What type of action do you take? In our legal system, cases can take one of two forms: civil cases and criminal cases : Civil Law Civil Law cases address issues between individual persons and/or organizations. These cases usually arise when an individual (the "plaintiff") feels he/she has been wronged and seeks financial reimbursement or to prohibit and/or allow certain actions. The accused individual or organization (the "defendant") then has an opportunity to state their case and defend themselves. These types of cases generally involve situations that are unique to the plaintiff, such as individual loss of time/money/wages or the defendant's failure to uphold his/her end of a contract. Typically, the verdict of these cases favors whichever party produced the strongest evidence. In a ...