European Union Law is now a fundamental part of English law in many areas. Administrative Law Administrative law is a branch of the law which has developed principally since the Second World War. The contentious principle of judicial review has been the basis of a range of headline-grabbing cases involving Cabinet ministers and other organs of the state. The Law of Tort is the law relating to the legal treatment of wrongs committed between people which do not constitute crimes. Negligence is the heart of cases as varied as the rights of families of those killed or injured in the Hillsborough disaster and cases of medical negligence.
Defamation considers libel and slander.
All of these areas of law will change with the passage of the Human Rights Act 1998. First, the creation of trusts in contexts as diverse as allocating rights in the family home on separation, as part of commercial loan agreements, and under wills. Second, the hotly-contested treatment of unconscionable conduct by English law whether in relation to the termination of complex banking contracts, or recovering rights in stolen property, or preventing fraudsters from looting pension funds. This area of law is a battleground for competing views of English society and the future direction of English law. Dr Alastair Hudson .