The UK Classification and Source of Law: Understanding the Hierarchy and Characteristics

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The UK Classification of Law
The law in UK is divided into three areas as per the geographical indications of the
place. The said areas are England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The
areas are not specific in operation as such but the laws somehow collide too based on
the preferences in the conflicts (Jain, 2021.). The law in context of UK refers to such set
of rules which the crown uses in order to regulate the lives of the governed and are
inclusive of such system of regulations also which determine the rights and liabilities of
the concerned in case of disputes among them. The people who are associated with the
territories are also governed accordingly by those people.
The law there is classifies into civil and criminal law. The law here is developed in the
way that includes the aspects of offences against states too termed as criminal law as
well as the wrongs which re specifically considered against the person termed as Civil
law. Both of them has certain aspect of punishment into them and they work as per the
needs of the case in particular and provisions in general. The people how will be
behaving in the society is governed by laws only and they ascertain the patterns of
orderly societies which should remain intact.
The criminal law is that branch of law where the law punishes the person for the
offences committed considering it against the society as a whole and they do not in
particular punish for the wrong to single being (Mangan, 2020.). The wrongs here are
considered to be to harmful that the tendency of them causes danger not only for the a
single person specifically but the society as a whole. They include the offences like
murder, dacoity, robbery, genocide, etc. in there umbrella.
The Civil law refers to that branch of where the wrong done to a person is considered to
have harmed the only person and not the society in general and thus the person here
will be punished singularly. The issues to which it relates are in concern with the single
person or a community and not to the society. The punishment inflicted in these cases
relates not with the imprisonment in most cases but imposes fine as a form of
compensation majorly. It relates to the offences like the breaches of various nature like
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