LAW 142 Study Guide - Final Guide: Personal Injury, Reasonable Person, Medical Malpractice
Document Summary
A civil wrong between individuals for which the victim can get legal remedy in the private. Slip and fall: medical malpractice, products liability, environmental disasters (pollution, spills, people in the wrong place at the wrong time. Private (civil) law: individual"s rights with the state, criminal law, constitutional law, administrative law, rights between individuals, tort law, contract law, property law. Torts is a private (civil) wrong, involving a dispute between two individuals. In a criminal case, it"s a a public law issue, the state vs the individuals. The goal of tort is to compensate someone for the harm they have received. This is a very different goal than the goal in criminal law which is designed to punish individuals and to deter socially unacceptable conduct. Civil law system of torts there is 6 jurors. In a tort case, the person bringing the claim, usually the accident victim, is called the plaintiff.
