LAWS1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Substantive Law, Procedural Law, Consumer Protection
Document Summary
The categories of law: substantive law and procedure law. Substantive law: the system of legal rules that set out the rights and obligations of individuals and the state. It is substantive law that determines whether a contract exists, whether a person has committed a crime, etc. Procedural law: the system of legal rules that regulate legal process such as civil litigation or a criminal prosecution. It is procedural law that determines whether a defendant is entitled to a jury at their trial and whether they are entitled to appeal to a higher court: public and private law. Public law (4): concerned with the relationship between the individual and the state (gov). It is the set of legal rules that establish the rights and obligations of the individual when dealing with the state and the rights and obligations of the state when dealing with the individual. Constitutional law, taxation law, administrative law, criminal law.
