1. Civil And Criminal Law Civil law is about the rights and duties of people and ifthey have arguments using the law to solve the problem. Some problems are: Lending and borrowingmoney, entering into contracts, arguments withneighbours and marriage issues. Criminal law is about criminal offences which could beoffences against society. It deals with things like: Murder, stealing, assault andrape.

2. Making The law For a request to become a bill and then a official law it hasto go through a long process. First a bill gets looked at and people speak about whatthe law should say then they look and question peoplewho this law could affect and then it goes through a longprocess in parliament. Here is a video explaining it all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ni-h8R2d0&NR=1 3. Who is who You are probably thinking who are certain people in law and whatdo they do? Here is what they do. Barrister & Solicitor: A part of the legal court in England and Wales ismade up of barristers and solicitors. In history, a line divided the twojobs. With some exceptions, access to the courts rests in the hands ofthe barrister. The solicitor then has virtually exclusive access to theclient in court. Jury: A body of people (usually twelve)who have to say what theythink about a legal and the evidence given to them in court. Judge: An official who decides cases in a court of law. Magistrate: An officer who administers the law for example someonewho works in a court that deals with minor offenses. Probation officer: Officers who play a role in the criminal justicesystem by supervising offenders who have been released fromincarceration(when someone is imprisoned) Court Clerk: A British English clerk to the court 4. Controversial law is a law that some people inparliament and outside of parliament dontagree with like the death penalty. Countrys will either abolish it or use it butonly in extreme murder or serial killer cases. Here is some information about it. 5. Death penalty is when you have committed crime so bad thatthe only consequences is death. In history the death penalty has been used a lot for example:Hanging, Electric Chair, Decapitation, Gas Chamber, FiringSquad and Lethal Injection. Some countries like Canada have abolished the Death Penaltybecause people complained against use of it in the past. Very few countrys still use the Death Penalty but these days 6. Reasons For Death Penalty Some family members of crime victims may take years ordecades to recover from the shock and loss of a loved one.Some even may never recover. One of the things thatsometimes makes people feel better (like revenge) is if theperson who committed the crime is dead. Prisoner parole or escapes can give criminals another chanceto kill. Which is probably the biggest reason to keep the deathpenalty. It helps with the problem of over populated prisons because, afew people will die and that will make more space. 7. Reasons Against Death PenaltyThe death penalty goes against our most basic human right -the right to lifeBeing killed by a lethal injection or being electrocuted is notalways smooth and painless, sometimes it causes a painfuldeathNo-one has ever proven with numbers that killing murderersstops other people committing similar crimesMistakes are sometimes made in the law - what if someoneis killed who is actually innocent? 8. Dear Malcolm Wicks,I am writing to you about being able to vote at 16. I thinkthat at 16 you have a lot of responsibility and voting shouldbe one of them. If at 16 you can work full time legally, youshould be able to choose who you would like to makechanges to your job and the country.Also at 16 you are allowed to leave home without yourparents consent which should therefore mean that they getto vote and choose a prime minister who will help keepstreets safer and give them a better style of life.Active Citizen(Extension)