Civil litigation is a term of art which distinguishes lawyer Court work in the non-criminal stream of actions in law. It encompasses not just the representations made in Court but also the pre-trial procedures including interlocutory hearings, and the port-trial procedures such as costs and enforcement of a judgment.
Civil litigation is a term of art which distinguishes lawyer Court work in the non-criminal stream of actions in law. It encompasses not just the representations made in Court but also the pre-trial procedures
including interlocutory hearings, and the port-trial procedures such as costs and enforcement of a judgment. Civil procedure is only one of many components of civil litigation.
However, that may be an agreeable definition for the "man on the Clapman omnibus" but in law, distinctions are necessary. Civil litigation is often distinguished from the arbitration of collective agreement disputes and criminal litigation, the latter being a specialty of some lawyers in representing clients only in criminal cases such as criminal hearings, trials or appeals.
Civil litigation does, though, include judicial review, adult guardianship and maritime law disputes.
Three of the most frequent types of civil litigation but not at all the only ones, are family law claims, tort claims and claims in which a breach of contract is alleged
