
English Legal System
Pearson Education Limited (Publisher)
16th Edition
Published on 7. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
768 pages
978-1-292-07673-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Trusted by students year after year, Elliott and Quinn's best-selling undergraduate textbook, English Legal System, is your definitive guide to this ever-changing area of law.
Updated annually to ensure currency and written in the authors' trademark clear, precise and engaging style, English Legal System has been developed with you, the student, firmly in mind, providing all you need to gain a broad and thorough understanding of this fast-paced subject.
Updated annually to ensure currency and written in the authors' trademark clear, precise and engaging style, English Legal System has been developed with you, the student, firmly in mind, providing all you need to gain a broad and thorough understanding of this fast-paced subject.
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Edition
16th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
1464 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-292-07673-7 (9781292076737)
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Persons
Catherine Elliott (LLB, DEA) is aa qualified barrister and Senior Lecturer in Law at City University, London. She has extensive experience of teaching and writing about law.
Frances Quinn is an award-winning journalist with a particular interest in and experience of the law.
Frances Quinn is an award-winning journalist with a particular interest in and experience of the law.
Content
Guided tour
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Table of statutory materials
Cases, law reports and case references: a guide
Introduction
Part 1: Sources of law
1. Case law
2. Statute law
3. Statutory interpretation
4. Delegated legislation
5. European law
6. Custom
7. Equity
8. Treaties
9. Law reform
Part 2: People working in the legal system
10. The judges
11. The legal professions
12. The jury
13. Magistrates
14. Administration of justice
Part 3: Human rights
15. Introduction to human rights
16. Remedies of infringement of human rights
Part 4: Dispute resolution
17. Paying for legal services
18. The police
19. The criminal trial process
20. Sentencing
21. Young offenders
22. The civil justice system
23. Tribunals
24. Appeals and judicial review
25. Alternative methods of dispute resolution
Part 5: Concepts of law
26. Law and rules
27. Law and morals
28. Law and justice
Appendix: Answering examination questions
Glossary
Select bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Table of statutory materials
Cases, law reports and case references: a guide
Introduction
Part 1: Sources of law
1. Case law
2. Statute law
3. Statutory interpretation
4. Delegated legislation
5. European law
6. Custom
7. Equity
8. Treaties
9. Law reform
Part 2: People working in the legal system
10. The judges
11. The legal professions
12. The jury
13. Magistrates
14. Administration of justice
Part 3: Human rights
15. Introduction to human rights
16. Remedies of infringement of human rights
Part 4: Dispute resolution
17. Paying for legal services
18. The police
19. The criminal trial process
20. Sentencing
21. Young offenders
22. The civil justice system
23. Tribunals
24. Appeals and judicial review
25. Alternative methods of dispute resolution
Part 5: Concepts of law
26. Law and rules
27. Law and morals
28. Law and justice
Appendix: Answering examination questions
Glossary
Select bibliography
Index