Sourcebook on English Legal System (Sourcebook S.)

by David Kelly (Author), Gary Slapper (Author), Gary Slapper (Author), David Kelly (Author)

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  2001

  $15.45

  Sourcebook on the English Legal System is a key collection of primary legal sources, Committee and Commission reports, explanatory documents and articles. A variety of critical articles and commentaries complement and expand upon these materials. Since the first edition of this book in 1996, the English legal system has undergone major and comprehensive changes. As a result of these profound changes, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to include presentation and analysis of three landmark pieces of legislation: the Access to Justice Act 1999, the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, and the Human Rights Act 1998. Other changes abound: the Auld Committee has undertaken a root and branch review of the criminal justice system; the Crown Prosecution Service has been re-organised; the nature of judicial impartiality has been authoritatively defined; the role of the jury has been exposed to intense public and legal debate; liability of advocates for courtroom negligence has been established; the appeals system has been altered; alternative dispute resolution has become a major feature of British life; and European law has continued to widen and deepen its application. The Sourcebook guides the reader through these areas, as well as the more traditional elements of any course on the English legal system, with clarity and insight.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $5.16

  Since the fifth edition of this book in 2001,The English legal System has undergone many major changes. Human rights cases have altered many aspects of criminal and civil law and legal procedure, the Community Legal Service has developed substantially and there have been significant changes to the law of civil liberties. Changes and proposed changes to the criminal justice system have provoked many important debates on juries, sentencing, police bail powers and hearsay evidence, and there have been many significant case decisions. The working practices of solicitors and barristers have undergone considerable change. Sir Colin Campbell's report on judicial appointments has provoked animated discussion about the changes proposed for the process of selecting judges, and the report of Sir Andrew Leggatt's review of tribunals will change the way the tribunal system works. The effects on the legal system of the Ant-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 have been significant. Cases with an important constitutional and political element such as R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex p Saad, and R (on the Application of Q) v Secretary of State for the Home Department have been incorporated into the relevant chapters. This new edition digests and assesses all of these changes. It explains what the law is, how the legal system operates and sets the law and system in a social context, presenting a range of critical views on these legal matters. In the preface, the book also charts and comments upon the June 2003 proposals for the UK to abolish the office of the Lord Chancellor and to institute a Supreme Court. The debates are digested in Chapter 1 of the book. Any relevant developments in this area in 2004, as in other areas, will be posted on to the book's companion website.