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DR. RAM MANOHAR LOHIYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW.

SYNOPSIS FOR WORLD LEGAL SYSTEMS’ PROJECT

‘ THE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM (under the English Legal System1)’

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The term the ‘ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM’ will be taken to cover both England and Wales.

Under the supervision of:

Submitted by:

Mr. Malay Pandey

Swarnim Pandey

Assistant Prof.

Section-B

(Law)

Roll No. -157

RMLNLU.

Sem- 1

FOREWORD: The civil law silently regulates everyone’s lives although most individuals do not become aware of its existence until a certain matter dictates that they need to become involved with a specific aspect of it. Civil law as a whole governs the issues between private individuals (as opposed to criminal law which is the state regulating society’s behavior). It deals with matters concerning rights, obligations and duties and it encompasses areas such as regulating of the terms of a contact and any subsequent breach of those terms. It covers a variety of different aspects such as personal injury claims, matters of family law, and the buying and selling of houses and employment law, through to wills, trusts and issues of inheritance. The civil law therefore can be involved in many aspects of a person’s life and it would be virtually impossible for an individual to go through life without encountering at least one limb of civil law at some point of time as the reach of the civil law extents as far as everyday mundane matters as getting on a train or a bus or buying an item from a shop.

Civil Justice systems in the United kingdom, means generally about all the institutions and processes, judicial and extra judicial ,which contribute in handling civil disputes .Citizens can enforce and protect their legal civil rights and to resolve disagreement between two or more parties though the civil justice system. The system's objective is to give citizens rapid solutions to legal problems, fair and affordably.

CRUX OF THE TOPIC: The project will deal with the civil system of the United Kingdom as a whole spanning from its history, its interpretation , its various nuances while also taking into account the various courts present in the legal sytsem and their hierarchy. The paper will try to put the complicated affairs in a lucid manner , of a legal system which holds an important place in the sphere of legal apparatus.

TENTATIVE CHAPTERISATION:  History of the civil justice system  The Woolf Reforms  Jurisdiction ( The magistrates’ courts, the county court, the high court, the court tracks etc)  Pre-action protocols  Part 36 of the CPR( civil procedure rules)  Settling a claim  Enforcement of judgements  Alternative dispute resolution  Tribunals  Conclusion.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: Purely doctrinal with the help of the following strategies:  Primary and secondary sources (books, journal and articles)  Internet

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 http://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/civil-law/the-civil-justicesystem.php  The English Legal System (- David Kelly and Gary Slapper)  English Legal System The Fundamentals (first edition) (-Jo Boylan-Kemp)  https://www.judiciary.gov.uk