Gary Slapper – The English Legal System (15th edition)

Автор: Gary Slapper
Название книги: The English Legal System (15th edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Юриспруденция и право
Страницы: 823
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System explains and critically assesses how our law is made and applied. Annually updated, this authoritative textbook clearly describes the legal rules of England and Wales and their collective influence as a sociocultural institution.

This latest edition of The English Legal System has been substantially rewritten and updated to include: updates to anti-terrorism legislation and control orders; an entirely new chapter on Family Courts and Process; the new Crime and Courts Act 2013; coverage of the Ministry of Justice proposals for reform of judicial review; expanded coverage of mediation and the Children and Families Bill 2013 and this edition also includes substantial updates arising from the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Key learning features include:

a clear and logical structure with short, manageable, well-structured individual chapters;
useful chapter summaries which act as a good check point for students;
sources for further reading and suggested websites at the end of each chapter to point students towards further learning pathways;
an online skills network including how tos, practical examples, tips, advice and interactive examples of English law in action.
Relied upon by generations of students, Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System is a permanent fixture in this everevolving subject.

In a law lecture delivered on 25 October 1758, William Blackstone described law as ‘this
most useful and most rational branch of learning’. With the growth and pervasion of
law in the succeeding two and a half centuries, the importance of legal study has risen
accordingly.
Law permeates into every cell of social life. It governs everything from the embryo
to exhumation. It governs the air we breathe, the food and drink that we consume, our
travel, sexuality, family relationships, property, the world of sport, science, employment,
business, education, health, everything from neighbour disputes to war. Taken together,
the set of institutions, processes, laws and personnel that provide the apparatus through
which law works, and the matrix of rules that control them, are known as the legal
system.
This system has evolved over a long time. Today it contains elements that are very
old, such as the coroners’ courts which have an 800-year history, and elements that are
very new, such as electronic law reports and judges using laptops and tablets.
A good comprehension of the English legal system requires knowledge and skill
in a number of disciplines. The system itself is the result of developments in law, economy
and politics, sociological change and the theories which feed all these bodies of know –
ledge. This book aims to assist students of the English legal system in the achievement of
a good understanding of the law, and of its institutions and processes. We aim to set the
legal system in a social context, and to present a range of relevant critical views.
Being profi cient in this subject also means being familiar with contemporary
changes and proposed changes and this new edition has been comprehensively revised
and updated to take these into account.
Since the fourteenth edition of this book, the changes to the English legal system
have been many and varied. We have included in the text a wide range of legisla –
tive, common law, constitutional and European developments that have occurred in the
last year.
We are once again very grateful to all those who advanced suggestions for
improvement of the book since the previous edition; many of those suggestions have
been implemented in this edition.
Gary Slapper