Monday, February 26, 2007

Civil and public law

Civil law concerns disputes among citizens within a country, and public law among citizens and the state, or between one state and another. The main civil law categories are contracts, torts, trusts and probate. In public law the main categories are crimes, Constitutional law and International law.
There are some differences between civil and criminal actions. In criminal action can't be any doubt about person's guilt, evidences should be very clear for judges. In civil action a crime cannot be proven if there are any doubts, so judges have to weigh all the evidence and decide is the person guilty or not. Also, criminal actions are always started by the state, but in civil law usually by individuals. Other important difference between these actions is that the party bringing a criminal action is called the prosecution and party bringing a civil action is the plaintiff. Sometimes evidence in criminal trial is not necessarily admissable and in civil action. That's why sometimes person has to prove his case even if he was found not guilty in criminal trial.
Finally, avoiding liability is bad for a person in both action. The procedures may force loser to pay money for the winner or even criminal penalty as well.

Friday, February 9, 2007

At this moment i am studying social work. I think it is interesting but still very hard profession and i am not sure that i will be able to become social worker. I like studying at Mykolas Romeris university because i get a lot of psychological news, news about people who are asocial and who need our society help. We are teached how to solve their problems but i think it is very hard to learn you must have moral fibre then you will become a real social worker. I don't think i have it. I always dreamed about other profession like law, management, administration and i hope i will study one from them. It's a pity that social work in our country is not ranked as well as in other countries like Germany, Finland and many others. I think it's a main reason why students don't
stay there for too long because it's a hard work but wage is very small.