Assisting students of the English legal system to achieve an understanding of the law, it's institutions and processes, this edition sets the law and legal system in its social context and outlines a range of critical views.
... to vote while they are in jail.7 However, in Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2) ((2006) 42 EHRR 41) the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that this blanket ban was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Thus , for example , White , in the first edition to his work , then entitled The Administration of Justice , wrote that , the old institutional , historical and rule - oriented approaches to the English legal system ] have given way in ...
... CA ....564 R v Bartle, See R v Bow Street Metropolitan Magistrates ex parte Pinochet Ugarte, sub nom R v Evans, R v Bartle Rv Beckles [2004] All ER (D) 226 ....376, 378 R v Benjafield and Others [2001] 3 WLR 75, CA ....54, ...
... sometimes at its own instance.83 Falk Moore's ideas have been developed by Peter Fitzpatrick,84 who has emphasized that an ... Fitzpatrick has attempted to show, in a Third World context, how the family and its legal order (one ...
15 Review of Civil Justice and Legal Aid: Report to the Lord Chancellor by Sir Peter Middleton GCB ('the Middleton Report') (HMSO, September 1997), at para 1.7. 16 Woolf Interim Report, para 4. 17 See p 547. PART III CIVIL PROCEEDINGS ...
The Independent Review, chaired by Sir Edward Faulks QC, a former Minister of State for Civil Justice, has been asked to examine a number of questions relating to judicial review. The Terms of Reference state that the Review should: ...
The House of Lords departed from its decision in Anderton v Ryan on the basis that the decision was wrong. Lord Bridge, although recognising the need for certainty in criminal law, felt that it was permissible to depart from the ...
Younger jurors were better able than older jurors to comprehend the legal instructions, with comprehension of directions on the law declining as the age of the juror increased. A written summary of the judge's directions on the law ...
The ninth edition of this annually revised textbook includes coverage of changes to the tribunal system and the creation of a Ministry of Justice.
'The English Legal System' provides a lively and approachable introduction for those new to the study of law.