Description
This English Legal System Textbook provides an invaluable foundation and comprehensive Introduction to the subject and aims to equip the student with a sound grasp of the basic principles involved. The book has been fully revised, updated and indexed for this latest edition. The topics included are divisions and sources of English law. the court structure, the judiciary and magistrates, the doctrine of precedent, statutory Interpretation, arrest, search. and seizure and interrogation, prosecution and ball, classification of offences and committal proceedings, summary trial, trial on Indictment and sentencing, the jury system, civil procedure in the High Court and the County Court, enforcement of judgments, civil and criminal appeals, the legal profession, legal aid, alternative legal services, and developments and reform.
New to this edition is the last chapter which includes extracts from and commentary on the most significant cases that have been decided in the last year. The cases covered in this way are the decisions of the Court of Appeal in McLeod v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (1994) (police powers of entry) and Ridehalgh v Horsefield (1994) (wasted costs orders). Many other recent cases are noted in the text of the other chapters. Every case is important to the student studying this subject for examination as they help to highlight the developments in the law that have recently occurred.
