English Legal System

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.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