Written by Andrew Hopper QC and Gregory Treverton-Jones QC, authors of The Solicitor's Handbook 2011 and leading figures in the regulatory and disciplinary field, Outcomes-Focused Regulation provides an explanation of the practical impact of this new regime and is designed to provide guidance that might not otherwise be readily available.
A highly personal criticism of the British legal system, its courts, its judges and its procedures. It takes women as the key example, showing how they have been adversely affected by images of women held by both lawyers and jurors. The author created the award-winning TV series, Blind Justice.
This popular and long established text provides a lively introduction to both the nature of the English legal system and its sources, and the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources. This new eighth edition has been fully updated throughout, and now features two-colour text and a revised jacket design.
Understanding the Law is an engaging and very readable introduction to the English legal system. The fifth edition of this popular book is idea for anyone preparing for university, or embarking on a law course at school or college, as it provides a wealth of fascinating detail about the legal system and its participants.
Understanding the Law is an engaging and very readable introduction to the English legal system. The book is ideal for anyone preparing for university, or embarking on a law course at school or college, as it provides a wealth of fascinating detail about the legal system and its participants.
Law Express Question and Answer: English Legal System is designed to help you get the most out of every answer you write by improving your understanding of what examiners are looking for, helping you to focus in on the question being asked and showing you how even a good answer can be improved.
Introduction to the English Legal System is the ideal foundation for those coming new to the study of law. Written in a highly engaging and accessible style, it introduces students to the purposes and functions of English law, the law-making process, and the machinery of justice, while also challenging assumptions and critiquing current debates.
Introduction to the English Legal System is the ideal foundation for those coming new to the study of law. Written in a highly engaging and accessible style, it introduces students to the purposes and functions of English law, the law-making process, and the machinery of justice, while also challenging assumptions and critiquing current debates.
Explores the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them the development of individual rights as these were gradually carved out from the authority of the Crown and the Church. This work examines Anglo-Saxon law, and considers the changes in law introduced by the Normans.
Providing students with what they need for the major topics in their A2-level study, this book covers the OCR syllabus requirements for Criminal Law 1 and 2, Contract Law 1 and 2, Tort Law 1 and 2. It also includes features such as: key case boxes that highlight what students need to know about important cases; and 'Food for thought' sections.
Course Notes supports revision of the essential modules of undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree courses by demonstrating good practice in creating and maintaining the ideal revision notes and actively encouraging you to acquire the analytical skills you will need for exam success.
The aim of this text is to attempt to understand the role of law in the wider world rather than simply in its own terms. Law is considered as ideology and as politics, and a political critique of law's role in facilitating a capitalist world is presented.
Intended for AS law students, this book combines explanation of the law with interactive quizzes, pictures, weblinks and exam advice. It maps to the exam board specifications (OCR, AQA and WJEC) and includes a Companion Website with regular case and legislation updates, extra quizzes and exercises, a glossary, and more.
Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations provides analysis and sustained critique of the ethics of English and Welsh lawyers. It argues that professional legal ethics has failed to deliver an approach that requires lawyers actively to engage with the ethical issues raised by legal practice.
Explains and critically assesses how our law is made and applied. Annually updated, this textbook clearly describes the legal rules of England and Wales and their collective influence as a sociocultural institution. It also provides material on topics such as the new Supreme Court; the criminal justice system; and human rights and European law.
English Legal System Directions is written in an engaging and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key principles of the English legal system with clarity. The book includes helpful learning features to guide students through the material in an interesting and informative way.
Widely regarded as the leading work on this subject. Provides a lucid and wide -ranging account of the English Legal System covering the institutions, personnel and procedures, and the handling of case law and statutes. The text is accompanied by sample court forms, tables of essential statistics and flow charts illustrating the court structures
Offers a coverage of funding arrangements in litigation cases. This book is written with the many challenges to CFAs under the 2000 Regulations in mind, and takes the reader through key background issues with a clear explanation of how to run a CFA case and a CFA litigation practice. It is suitable for those involved in litigation practice.
On 6 October 2011 the biggest change to law firm regulation in decades will come into effect with the introduction of the SRA Handbook. It crystallises the SRA's risk-based and outcomes-focused approach. Ensure you understand the fundamental changes with help from the SRA Handbook.
Offers an introduction to the English Legal System, useful for pre-university or postgraduate conversion courses. This book provides a framework for understanding how the various elements of the legal system combine, interrelate and function at a time of considerable change and challenge.
Offering guidance to claimant litigators on the process of civil costs assessment, this work includes advice on how to use the Civil Procedure Rules and the Costs Practice Direction to full advantage. Accompanied by a CD-ROM containing over 100 files, it explains the procedure and documentation required.
English Legal System Directions is written in an engaging and accessible style, with an emphasis on explaining the key principles of the English legal system with clarity. Using clear language and contemporary examples, the book includes helpful learning features to guide students through the material in a lively, interesting and informative way.
The English Legal System provides a lively and approachable introduction for those new to the study of law. The textbook presents the main areas of the legal system and encourages students to critique the wider aspects of how law is made and reformed.
Provides an initial overview of the principles of statutory interpretation and precedent, with cross-referencing to their consideration in case studies. This book uses case studies to extract the principles of statutory interpretation and precedent from substantive law. It examines the EU influence on principles of statutory interpretation.