What do you know about Civil Law in Canada?

1. What are civil laws?

2. What do civil cases involve (what do they try to settle)?

3. Do civil cases affect the whole of society negatively?

4. List the 6 types of civil law/disputes:

5. What does civil court call the person who is suing?

6. What does civil court call the person who is defending the case?

7. Answer the following as TRUE or FALSE:

1. A civil case starts when one person files a complaint with the court. This person is called the defendant.

b. The case in civil court would be written as Plaintiff (ex. Jones) vs Defendant (ex. Smith)

c. The burden of proof in civil cases is on the balance of probabilities, which means which side ismore right.

d. The penalty in a civil case is imprisonment/jail time rather than compensation

e. Most civil cases in Canada that are under $25,000 are decided by a 12 person jury

Civil or Criminal? You Decide!

Decide if the fictitious scenario is a criminal or civil case, If you think it is criminal list the offence/charge, if you think it is civil, list the category of civil law it falls under.

1. Peter Rabbit stole all the carrots from Mr. McGregor's farm.

2. The Queen gave Snow White a poisonous apple that she knew was poisonous. Snow White bit into the apple and went into a coma.

Crown-government

Defendant/ Accused- Queen

Victim- Snow White

Type of Law- Criminal

Charge: 239 (1) Attempted Murdered

3. The bean seller made a deal to buy Jack's cow in exchange for "magic" seeds. The cow produced lots of milk for the bean seller, but Jack's beans were not magic and did not produce anything.

4. Papa Bear and Mama Bear no longer wanted to be married.

5. The second little pig didn't complete building the other pig's house as he said he would.

6. Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall that the Queen's men built because it collapsed due to poor materials being used/poor construction.

7. Catwoman scratched the Bat Mobile car with her own car when she was backing out of Batman's driveway.

8. Goldilocks went to the 3 Bears Restaurant and ordered porridge. Papa Bear was not paying attention and let the porridge cook too long, he also failed to tell Goldilocks to be careful because it was too hot when he served it. Goldilocks ate the porridge and got third degree burns in her mouth.

Plaintiff- Goldilocks

Defendant- Papa Bear

Type of law: Civil

Charge: Tort (suing for personal injury)

9.Create 2 more fairytale scenarios that have not been used. One should be a criminal case and one should be a civil case with different characters for each scenario (one civil and one criminal case). Make sure scenarios are very unique, creative, interesting, and apply correctly to both civil and criminal law