Comparing civil and public law we find a lot of differences. The main point is that civil law concerns disputes among citizens, and the public law- between citizens and the state, or one state and another. The main categories of English civil law are: contracts, torts, trusts, probate, family law. And of public law are: crimes, constitutional law, international law.
Criminal, public and civil procedures are different. In English criminal law defendant has to pay a fine or a punishment for his crime. And the standards of proof there are higher then in a civil court. The criminal actions are always started by the state. And the civil actions are usually started by individuals, the proof are lower there, a crime cannot be proven if there are doubts of guilty. The evidences are very necessary and court will weight all of them. In Anglo- American law, the party who brings a criminal action is called prosecution, and in civil action- the plaintiff.
There are many points of contact between criminal and civil law.
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