Subjects:

English Legal System

Contents:

Table of Acts of Parliament

Table of cases

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 The Rule of Law

Chapter 2 The development of law

Chapter 3 Judicial precedent

Chapter 4 Acts of Parliament

Chapter 5 Delegated Legislation

Chapter 6 European Law

Chapter 7 Statutory Interpretation

Chapter 8 Law Reform

Chapter 9 Civil cases

Chapter 10 Alternative methods of Dispute Resolution

Chapter 11 Crime and police investigations

Chapter 12 Pre-trial procedure in criminal cases

Chapter 13 Criminal courts

Chapter 14 Sentencing

Chapter 15 The legal profession

Chapter 16 The judiciary

Chapter 17 Magistrates

Chapter 18 Juries

Chapter 19 Legal aid and advice

Chapter 20 Human rights

Appendix 1 Hints on some of the activities

Appendix 2 Glossary of Latin terms

Index

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