The English legal system
By: Alisdair A. Gillespie, Head of Law at Lancaster University ; with Siobhan Weare, Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University
Contributors: Weare, Siobhan, author
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9780198727217
Subjects: Law
Description: 'The English Legal System' provides a lively and approachable introduction for those new to the study of law. It presents the main areas of the English legal system and invites students to critique the wider aspects of how law is made and reformed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-626) and index.
Table of contents: title: The English legal system --; title: Domestic sources of law : parliamentary material --; title: Domestic sources of law : case law --; title: International sources of law --; title: Human Rights Act 1998 --; title: The courts --; title: Judges and judicial independence --; title: The legal professions --; title: Funding access to practitioners --; title: Preliminary matters --; title: Lay justice --; title: Those in court --; title: The trials --; title: Criminal appeals --; title: Civil litigation --; title: Remedies and appeals --; title: Alternative dispute resolution --; title: Tribunals --; title: The future.