Lawsense

Welcome to Lawsense — in this blog, I try to explain the  law and the legal system so that everyday folk who may find themselves caught up in a lawsuit can understand what’s going on. I’m only going to talk about civil law, not criminal law, because I don’t practice criminal law.

So this leads me to my first topic — what’s the difference between criminal law and civil law? The easiest answer is that civil law is everything that’s not criminal law. Another way to think of it is that civil law deals with disputes between people and criminal law deals with disputes between the State (i.e. the police, the prosecutor, the government) and people.