About Private Law
Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the jus commune that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts or torts, and the law of obligations.
Judge taken to hospital after family court assault
... Family courts hear both public law cases, where children may be removed from their families, and Private Law cases, where parents are separating...
Family courts: Mothers dying after 'abusers' claim access to children
... National scandal Researchers studying the family court say they are concerned that claims of parental alienation appear to be increasing in Private Law cases like these - where one parent takes another to court, rather than an intervention by social services...
CBI lobby group in 'difficult place' after rape claim, says member
... The group has hired a Private Law firm, Fox Williams, to look into all the allegations, and it expects to have some preliminary findings shortly after Easter...
Alex Murdaugh trial: Power, privilege, and the downfall of a dynasty
... For nearly a century, the Murdaugh family reigned in this southern corner of South Carolina - a flat expanse of marshlands, palm trees and porch-ringed houses - presiding over the local prosecutor s office and the Private Law firm that made them rich...
Why I'm seizing the chance to scrutinise the family courts
... Broadly, cases are divided into disputes between separating parents, known as Private Law, and applications by local authorities to take children into care, which are public law...
