business and employment law

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Business and Employment Law
Introduction A particularly outstanding way to concretize the legal system in England is to understand the classification of the different categories of law. From a broad perspective, the law is grouped as either public law or private law. In brief, public law relates to the relationship between the state and an individual. It includes administrative law, constitutional law, and criminal law. On the other hand, private law governs the relationship between individual citizens and businesses in a legal system. It is comprised of civil law, land law, corporation law, competition law, and labor law. Predominantly, the civil law legal system involves the tort and contract law, both of which are found in the law of obligations. I support the statement that states the law of obligations, which is categorized under civil law and includes torts and contract laws, is fundamentally different from criminal law. My reason for this point of view is because, for instance, in criminal law, the courts commit the defendants to prison terms and fines if they are found to be guilty. This is different from civil law where the court commits the defendant to pay damages to the claimant, but never imprisons them. In brief, the jurisdictions differ in that in civil law, the guilty defendant only pays damages to the claimant but never imprisoned while, in criminal law, the court may imprison and fine a guilty defendant. In recen…