PARALEGAL STUDIES INTRODUCTION
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Paralegal Studies Introduction
Civil law and criminal law are two vast and different entities with a distinguishable set of requirements, and each has separate penalties. Criminal lawyers are subjected to cases of murder, assaults, harassments, and burglary. In contrast, civil laws are subject to malpractice and negligence, like not adhering to the law of paying tax between individuals and organizations. In the due process, compensation is given to the victim while in criminal law, punishment is subjected to the criminals. In criminal acts, cases are initiated by the state government that the sanctions may include imprisonment and paying of exceptional. The resection must show guiltiness of the defendants while civil laws case is liked to be filed by individuals or organizations, which are private parties. The facts are judged by the judge and the punishments in most cases are paying of monetary awards to the victims but not at any time they may include imprisonment and the defendants in the civil case are not entitled to legal protection as it is the cases in criminal cases where defendants are awarded legal protection from both internal and external forces (Cerne et al. .2020).
Criminal cases are always handled in the courtroom up to the end of the situation differently to the civil trial, where they can be treated outside the courtroom where the case may be dropped from the court and both parties. Criminal cases require a higher level of evidence and proof to the victims of the case for the punishment to be issued differently to civil instances in which the documentation is based on clear and convincing way and to some people it may happen to be frustrating when one is not well familiar with them. Civil cases are more flexible in the manner in which they are resolved differently to criminal case laws, which are more complicated since criminal cases include a judge who can reject some agreement for various reasons between the victims and the offending party (Gambin et al. et al. .2020).
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Cserne, P. (2020). Introduction: Why care about ‘style’ in legal scholarship?. International journal of law in context, 15(3).
Gambin, L., & Hogarth, T. (2020). Employers’ behavioral responses to the introduction of an apprenticeship levy in England: an ex-ante assessment. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 1-26.