Used by thousands of students each year, this best-selling title is your definitive guide to all aspects of the English Legal System. Ideally suited for use on LLB or GDL programmes, its unrivalled coverage combined with the authors’ trademark clarity of writing ensures you have the best possible foundation for your study.
The ninth edition of this annually revised textbook includes coverage of changes to the tribunal system and the creation of a Ministry of Justice.
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 ...
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: ...
... 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 ...
This book enables students to first understand all of the key areas of the English legal system, and then to engage with the subject fully for themselves.
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...
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 ...
... 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.
As an illustration, Fitzpatrick has attempted to show, in a Third World context, how the family and its legal order (one semi-autonomous legal field) is profoundly affected by the state ...