The relationship between the criminal and civil liability of a public employee

Abstract

The public employee exercises various types of auxiliary and control activities in performing the duties assigned to him. In the exercise of this activity, he may cause harm to others arising from an act he initiates or causes, or from those under his supervision, or from objects under his guard. Harm may arise from abstaining from an act required by law when... The law intervenes to impose a penalty on those who inflict harm on others, and it is a penalty imposed within the scope of legal liability. However, this liability varies in terms of forms and differs in nature. Either it is decided by the penal law and it is called criminal liability.

  The importance of this study is to show the degree of independence that exists between criminal and civil responsibility and the effect of the procedures followed during the exercise of criminal follow-up on employees on disciplinary responsibility, as well as to understand the validity of the criminal rulings obtained by the disciplinary authorities and the impact of the emergence of penalties and disciplinary responsibility on the job relationship of employees, and that To enlighten the categories of employees covered by the Civil Service Law regarding the disciplinary measures taken against them. Incidents of professional error that may lead to criminal and civil liability.

The research aimed to reveal knowledge of the concept of criminal and civil liability of a public employee and the relationship between the two responsibilities.

To achieve the research, the researcher identified in the first section the basic elements of the research, which are the research problem, its importance, its objectives, and the definition of its terminology. As for the second section, it dealt with the establishment of criminal and civil liability for the public employee and concluded the research with a conclusion that included the results and recommendations of the research.