ABSTRACT
The laws which are applied in the construction industry are both of a general and a specialist nature. Essentially, the basic division in the English legal system is the distinction between criminal and civil law. Since the difference between the regions stemmed from their different customary laws, it is no exaggeration to say that custom was the principal original source of the common law. The majority of new laws are made in a documentary form by way of an Act of Parliament. Statute has always been a source of English law and by the nineteenth century it rivalled decided cases as a source. The Supreme Court maintains and develops a role as a court of importance in the common law. The circuit judges sit either in a Crown Court to try criminal cases or in county courts to try civil cases.
