The definition of these terms

The topic of this work is “Justice and the law. Britain’s legal system”. The object of this work is the legislation of Great Britain. The subject is the peculiarities of the British legislation system. The aim is to learn about this peculiarities. Our task is to understand, what does “justice, law and legal system mean? What concepts are included in these terms? We should know answers to many questions. For example: What denotes such terms as “civil law, common law and religious law” ? We should learn about different law acts and kinds of courts in Great Britain, first of all about the Supreme Court of The UK, its jurisdiction, history, justices. Here you can read, that The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court in all matters under English law, Northern Ireland law and Scottish civil law.