English Legal System

An engaging guide to the English legal system which helps students new to law develop a critical legal mind. Presenting and critiquing the law in a lively style, this text invites students to question, analyse, and evaluate.

List of contents

• 1: The English legal system


• Part I: Sources of Law


• 2: Domestic sources of law: parliamentary material


• 3: Domestic sources of law: case law


• 4: International sources of law


• 5: Human Rights Act 1998


• Part II: The Courts and the Practitioners


• 6: The structure of the courts


• 7: The structure of the tribunals


• 8: The judiciary and their appointment


• 9: Judicial independence


• 10: The legal professions


• 11: Funding access to justice


• Part III: The Criminal Justice System


• 12: The investigation of crime


• 13: Pre-trial matters


• 14: Those in court


• 15: The trials


• 16: Criminal appeals


• Part IV: The Civil Justice System


• 17: Civil litigation


• 18: Remedies and appeals


• 19: Alternative dispute resolution


• Part V: The Future


• 20: The future

Product details

• Authors: Alisdair (Professor of Criminal Law and Gillespie, Gillespie Alisdair, Siobhan Weare
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198937579
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893757-9
• No. of pages: 784
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, Wales, LAW / General, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general