Subjects:

English Legal System

Contents:

1. What is 'the English legal system'?

2. Courts

3. Courts in 'the English legal system'

4. Tribunals

5. English legal reasoning: the use of case law

6. English legal reasoning: reading statutes

7. The university law school and law students

8. Solicitors and barristers

9. Judges and judging

10. The civil court in action

11. Private security and other non-police agencies

12. The public police: uncovering crime and powers of stop and search

13. Powers of arrest and search

14. Detention, investigation and prosecution

15. The magistrates' court

16. The Crown Court

Bibliography

Index

Out Of Print

Following the same structure and philosophy as the previous two editions which have made this work so well-respected, the new, third, edition of English Legal System in Context offers a fresh approach to this core subject by considering a wider range of issues than can be found in other texts on this field.

One example of this expanded horizon approach can be seen in its coverage of the criminal justice system. Here, the authors - Fiona Cownie, Anthony Bradney and Mandy Burton - consider the police, their powers and the rights of suspects detained at the police station. However, they also examine the world of private policing, the work of environmental health officers and other non-police prosecutors, as well as the role of the public in uncovering crime.Lucid and concise, easy to understand, this new edition is brought up to date to include all the latest legal developments since the previous edition.

For instance, it looks at the impact of the Woolf Reforms, and examines the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Access to Justice Act 1999 with a view it their influence on the English legal system. The authors show that the English legal system is a fluid thing, resilient to reform and change.