
The Legal System
Kate Malleson(Author)
Oxford University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-19-928241-8 (ISBN)
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Description
"The Legal System" provides an overview of the institutions, personnel and procedures that make up the legal system in England and Wales explaining and critically evaluating current changes. The text explores a number of key competing themes and underlying tensions which run through the legal system in today's modern society thereby encouraging students to develop an in-depth understanding of the subject. The book draws out the difficult dilemmas which the system is currently facing: Should efficiency be prioritised over quality of justice? Is the civil justice system fundamentally private or public? Can litigation be discouraged without reducing access to justice? These are the sorts of questions which must be addressed in order to understand the direction in which the legal system is moving. Nor are the answers necessarily driven by the needs and internal logic of the system itself. The book shows how political and economic priorities are just as important in determining the policies which shape the legal system today.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate students studying the English legal system as part of their degree programme.
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928241-8 (9780199282418)
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The Legal System
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Person
Kate Malleson, Senior lecturer at the Department of Law, LSE.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. The organisation of the courts; 3. Sources of law; 4. The Human Rights Act 1998; 5. The legislative process; 6. Statutory interpretation; 7. Case law, precendent and judicial law-making; 8. The civil justice process; 9. The Woolf reforms to civil justice; 10. Recent trends in the criminal justice system; 11. Police powers; 12. The prosecution process; 13. The trial process; 14. Criminal appeals and the post-appeal process; 15. The provision of legal services; 16. The structure and functions of the judiciary; 17. Judicial appointments; 18. Lay adjudication; 19. Funding of legal services