Legal Method

The competent study of law is a finely tuned balance of excellent language ability, good reading and writing skills, good personal study discipline, a thorough appreciation of the relevant areas of substantive law and excellent argumentative skills. Legal method is an important area of study for two main reasons. First, it is important for the range of techniques that it can offer to break into legal texts, both primary and secondary. Secondly, it exposes reasoning processes concerned with the theory and practise of law. The book deals in both the areas mentioned, and aims to deal with issues of 'how to'. Although the book acknowledges the complexities of legal rules and the construction of arguments, it attempts in an immediate and user friendly manner to show inter-relationships and to allow the commencement of constructing arguments.