Courtney Lowes
Unit 23
P3
The differences between Civil and Criminal Court structure:
Civil Court:
- Civil courts do not have juries in them
- The civil court would only deal with civil matters, examples of these would be
things such as business and family law
- The cases within the civil court would usually end up in someone getting
compensation
- The burden of proof is balance of the probabilities in the civil court cases
- High court would be split into three different sections
- Civil cases would all start in the county court for the first hearing that they
had.
- The high court within the civil court is split into the three; family, chancery
court and the Queen’s Bench.
- The court of appeal in the Civil Court would usually have three judges on the
case
Criminal Court
- The criminal court has both a judge and a jury within.
- The criminal court would deal with criminal cases only. Examples would be
murder, rape and other things such as any damage that took place.
Unit 23
P3
The differences between Civil and Criminal Court structure:
Civil Court:
- Civil courts do not have juries in them
- The civil court would only deal with civil matters, examples of these would be
things such as business and family law
- The cases within the civil court would usually end up in someone getting
compensation
- The burden of proof is balance of the probabilities in the civil court cases
- High court would be split into three different sections
- Civil cases would all start in the county court for the first hearing that they
had.
- The high court within the civil court is split into the three; family, chancery
court and the Queen’s Bench.
- The court of appeal in the Civil Court would usually have three judges on the
case
Criminal Court
- The criminal court has both a judge and a jury within.
- The criminal court would deal with criminal cases only. Examples would be
murder, rape and other things such as any damage that took place.
