Trusted by students year after year, Elliott and Quinn's 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, this book 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.
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... 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 ...
More worrying was the ability of jurors to understand directions given by judges. The study involved 797 jurors at three courts who all saw the same simulated trial and heard exactly the same judicial directions on the law.
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The popular perception of the judicial process is described by David Kairys as government by law, not people, together with the understanding that law is separate from, and superior to, politics, economics, culture and the values and ...
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 ...
In the cases of Schorsch Meier GmbH v Henning (1975) and Miliangos v George Frank (Textiles) Ltd (1976) the Court of Appeal refused to follow the House of Lords' decision in Havana Railways (1961) that damages could only be awarded in ...
The right to bring private prosecutions was retained by s 6(1) of the pOA 1985. boyce and Gokani (2014) suggest that straitened economic times are leading to a substantial increase in private prosecutions from bodies such as Transport ...
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 English Legal System provides a lively and approachable introduction for those new to the study of law. The textbook presents the main areas of the legal system and encourages...