Community
A Community is a society of people living in the same place, under the same laws and regulations, and who have common rights and privileges.
Community Punishment Order
A Community Punishment Order involve the offender doing unpaid work in the community. These are usually handed to offenders between the ages of 16 and 17.
Compensation
Usually a sum of money offered to make amends for an act, error or omission that harmed someone. The harm suffered may have been loss, personal injury or inconvenience.
Compensation Order
A Compensation Order is an order from a court that the convicted person must pay compensation to cover the cost of the damages they committed.
Competency
Competency refers to the law of evidence. The presence of those characteristics, or the absence of those disabilities, which render a witness legally fit and qualified to give testimony in a court of justice. The term is also applied, in the same sense, to documents or other written evidence.
Complainant
A complainant is a person who makes a complaint.
Complaint
A complaint is expressing discontent for something.
Complete / completion (property)
Completion takes place when the purchase money is transferred to the seller and other fees are paid.
Compliance
Compliance is the process by which an organisation ensures that it observes and complies with the external statutory laws and regulations.
Conciliation
An alternative to alternative dispute resolution where the parties to a dispute use a conciliator, who meets with the parties both separately and together in an attempt to resolve their differences.