Editing Guide to trials (section)

== The difference between Criminal and Civil Law ==
This is an important distinction to make. In the real world, criminal law is everything that you will get sued over by the state, such as murder. Civil law is everything that you get sued over by a private party, for instance, slander. On the station, this translates as follows:

'''Criminal Law:''' Everything that is explicitly against [[Space Law]]. These cases are prepared for entirely in-house by the Security and Command departments, and typically involve crimes against the crew, the station or [[Nanotrasen]] itself.

'''Civil Law:''' Everything not covered explicitly by Space Law, or that is simply not high profile enough for Security. For example, if the [[Clown]]'s bike horn is stolen by the [[Janitor]], the Clown can try to sue the Janitor. If the [[Curator]] is spreading slander about the [[Quartermaster]], they may get sued over that by the QM. These cases are prepared for by the [[Law Office]], maybe with a bit of help from the [[Detective]].