Synopses & Reviews
Butterworths Core Text: 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.
Synopsis
The Legal System provides a concise and up-to-date review of the institutions, personnel and procedures that make up the legal system in England and Wales. Current changes are explained and critically evaluated. Using practical examples, the book analyses recent and ongoing developments by identifying a number of key themes and tensions underlying the legal system today.
Synopsis
The Legal System provides a concise and up-to-date review of the institutions, personnel and procedures that make up the legal system in England and Wales. Current changes are explained and critically evaluated. Using practical examples, the book analyses recent and ongoing developments by identifying a number of key themes and tensions underlying the legal system today.
About the Author
Kate Malleson is Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of
The New Judiciary and has published widely on the judiciary and the legal system. She was a member of the Fawcett Commission on Women in the Criminal Justice System which reported in 2004 and is case notes editor of the Modern Law Review.
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