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Chapter 8 Key facts checklists
The Civil Justice System
- Civil justice is focused on achieving a system that is accessible, fair, and efficient.
- Civil justice is concerned with the private dispute between individuals in the absence of the state (though see Chapter 3 under ‘Judicial review’).
- Civil justice seeks to solve disputes before they have had a chance to enter the legal structure, through the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
- Civil justice follows a similar pattern to its criminal counterpart; however, some of the procedural rules (specifically those relating to evidence) appear to be much more relaxed than in the criminal justice system.