Under Ohio law, a no contest plea cannot be used in civil proceedings, he said.
Unusually in Scottish civil proceedings, the case was heard before a jury.
Instead, it his removed from teachers a defence to civil proceedings.
There is no right to free legal assistance in civil proceedings.
In a civil proceeding, the standard of proof is not as high, and that has opened a new door for the authorities here.
The only means by which civil proceedings could be brought were:
The term is the same in civil and criminal proceedings.
The Act contains similar requirements to those in civil proceedings.
There aren't so many restrictions on evidence in a civil proceeding.
English law did not originally make a distinction between criminal and civil proceedings.