How the Law Works: A Friendly Guide

by Gary Slapper (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $3.28

  How the Law Works is a refreshingly clear and reliable guide to today's legal system. Offering interesting and comprehensive coverage, it makes sense of all the curious features of the law in day to day life and in current affairs.

  Explaining the law and legal jargon in plain English, it provides an accessible entry point to the different types of law and legal techniques, as well as today's compensation culture and human rights law. In addition to explaining the role of judges, lawyers, juries and parliament, it clarifies the mechanisms behind criminal and civil law.

  How the Law Works is essential reading for anyone approaching law for the first time, or for anyone who is interested in an engaging introduction to the subject's bigger picture.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.28

  A clear, accessible and irreverent guide to how the UK's legal machine works.

  Traditionally, the Law has been shrouded in mystery, and to most of us, it seems impenetrable and hugely complicated. But in today's world, our need to understand it is rapidly growing. Existing book are either dry, academic, aimed solely at student readerships, esoteric in style, or argumentative for this or that change in the law.

  How the Law Works is different. It offers clear, critical and intelligent coverage to enable us to make sense of those things that matter most to us in our day-to-day life, and which are discussed in current affairs.

  Anyone who wants to know about Law or who has come up against the legal system in one way or another needs this book.

  Contents include:
  * Why we need law
  * Where the legal system came from
  * Judges
  * Lawyers
  * Criminal Law
  * Juries
  * Punishment
  * Civil Law
  * Compensation Culture
  * Case Law
  * Parliament
  * Human Rights Law