Assisting students of the English legal system to achieve an understanding of the law, its 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, ...
'The English Legal System' provides a lively and approachable introduction for those new to the study of law.
... 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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
This fourth edition is fully up to date with changes to the law and all the latest developments, including: the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 changes to sentencing All recent cases Interactive resources ...