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Civil and Criminal Law

Indicate whether you think the following are breaking Civil or Criminal Law

1. Writing an article in a newspaper which contains lies about someone who is famous	�
2. Stealing a CD from a shop	�
3. A shop selling a stereo that is broken	�
4. Walking across someone else garden	�
5. Parking on a double yellow line	�
6. A shop selling food that is past it's use-by date	�
7. Killing another human being	�
8. Copying a song that someone else has written and pretending that it is yours)	�

Civil and Criminal Law

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1. Writing an article in a newspaper which contains lies about someone who is famous	Civil (Libel)
2. Stealing a CD from a shop	Criminal (Theft)
3. A shop selling a stereo that is broken	Civil (Consumer Rights)
4. Walking across someone else garden	Civil (Trespass)
5. Parking on a double yellow line	Criminal (Road Traffic Offence)
6. A shop selling food that is past it's use-by date	Criminal (Food Safety Legislation)
7. Killing another human being	Criminal (Murder/Manslaughter)
8. Copying a song that someone else has written and pretending that it is yours)	Civil (Copyright Law)

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