The Legal System
Published on 1. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
311 pages
978-0-406-94797-0 (ISBN)
Description
"The Legal System" is an important new work which provides an overview of the institutions, personnel and procedures that make up the legal system. Key areas of recent change are explained and critically evaluated. By applying an analytical framework to the different areas which make up the legal system, the aim of the book is to provide the reader with an understanding of the different and competing aims which run through the system.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-406-94797-0 (9780406947970)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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, precedent 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. Lat adjudication; 19. Funding of legal services; Index