The legal system
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Bibliographic Information
The legal system
（Butterworths core text series / series editor Nicola Padfield）
LexisNexis, c2003
Available at 7 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"The Legal System" is an important new work which provides an overview of the institutions, personnel and procedures that make up the legal system. Key areas of recent change are explained and critically evaluated. By applying an analytical framework to the different areas which make up the legal system, the aim of the book is to provide the reader with an understanding of the different and competing aims which run through the system.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The organisation of the courts
- 3. Sources of law
- 4. The Human Rights Act 1998
- 5. The legislative process
- 6. Statutory interpretation
- 7. Case law, precedent and judicial law-making
- 8. The civil justice process
- 9. The Woolf reforms to civil justice
- 10. Recent trends in the criminal justice system
- 11. Police powers
- 12. The prosecution process
- 13. The trial process
- 14. Criminal appeals and the post-appeal process
- 15. The provision of legal services
- 16. The structure and functions of the judiciary
- 17. Judicial appointments
- 18. Lat adjudication
- 19. Funding of legal services
- Index
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