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Darbyshire on the English Legal System 10th edition [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 676 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2011
  • Leidėjas: Sweet & Maxwell
  • ISBN-10: 0414046021
  • ISBN-13: 9780414046023
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 676 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2011
  • Leidėjas: Sweet & Maxwell
  • ISBN-10: 0414046021
  • ISBN-13: 9780414046023
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Darbyshire on the English Legal System continues to provide a clear, concise and highly readable introduction to the legal system of England and Wales. The author draws on her considerable experience to provide an engaging, thought-provoking and sometimes entertaining approach to this area of law by using a narrative style that is both clear and easy to follow. The tile focuses on the every aspect of the ELS and explains both historical and contemporary values/traditions/practices.
Preface v
Online Updates vii
Table of Cases
xv
Table of Statutes
xxxi
Table of Statutory Instruments
xxxvii
Table of International and European Conventions and Legislation
xxxix
Note on Neutral Citation of Cases xli
PART I Sources
1 Understanding the English Legal System
1 What is law? The rule of law
1(1)
2 Distinguishing between different types of law
2(6)
3 What is the English legal system?
8(5)
4 The mother of all common law systems
13(1)
5 The comparison with other European systems
14(9)
6 Who runs the English legal system?
23(1)
7 Keeping up-to-date with the English legal system
24
2 Sources of English Law
1 Legislation
2(14)
2 Statutory interpretation
16(10)
3 Critique of legislation
26(2)
4 Case Law
28(13)
5 Prerogative power
41(1)
6 Custom
42(1)
7 Books of authority
43(1)
8 International law as a source of English law
44
3 Community Law: Its Impact on English Law and the English Courts
1 EU law is part of UK law
1(1)
2 The Treaties
2(1)
3 Institutions
3(21)
4 Sources of EU law
24(2)
5 Direct applicability and direct effect
26(9)
6 The Von Colson principle and Marleasing: indirect effect
35(1)
7 Damages from a tardy State: the Francovich principle
36(2)
8 Direct effect of EU law in the UK
38(1)
9 Supremacy of EU law in the UK
39(3)
10 General principles of law
42(1)
11 The EU and the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2010/C 83/02)
43(1)
12 Harmonisation of laws: the Corpus Juris project and the creation of a European Area of Justice
44
4 The European Convention on Human Rights and English Law
1 Incorporation into UK law
1(3)
2 The Convention Rights
4(1)
3 The European Court of Human Rights
5(1)
4 Examples of the Convention's Application in English Law
6(52)
5 The approach of English courts to Convention rights and interpretation of domestic law
58(5)
6 Who can bring an action and against whom can actions be brought?
63(6)
7 Evaluations of the Act's Impact
69
8 The dramatic effect of Art.6: repositioning the judiciary in the UK constitution
64(2)
9 Evaluations of the Human Rights Act
66
5 Law Reform and the Changing Legal System
1 The inevitability of change
1(1)
2 Methods of law reform
2(1)
PART II Institutions
6 Civil Courts
1 Magistrates' courts
2(1)
2 County courts
3(1)
3 The High Court of Justice
4(5)
4 The Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
9(1)
5 The House of Lords transforms into the Supreme Court
10(4)
6 The Court of Justice of the EU
14(1)
7 The European Court of Human Rights
15(1)
8 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
16(2)
9 Other civil courts
18(4)
10 Court management
22(3)
11 Open justice?
25
7 Criminal Courts
1 Magistrates' courts
2(5)
2 The Youth Court
7(1)
3 The Crown Court
8(1)
4 The Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division
9(1)
5 The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
10(1)
6 The UK Supreme Court
11(1)
7 The Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights
12(1)
8 The Special Immigration Appeals Commission
13(1)
9 Justice for All 2002
14
8 History
1 Continuity
1(1)
2 Early history
2(4)
3 The common law
6(3)
4 Equity
9(7)
5 Nineteenth-century developments
16(3)
6 Twentieth-century developments
19
PART III Procedures
9 The Adversarial Process
1 Elements of the adversarial (accusatorial) system
2(4)
2 Criticism of the adversarial system
6(1)
3 Erosion of the adversarial process
7
10 Civil Procedure
1 Civil procedure after "the Woolf reforms"
2(1)
2 The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR)
3(20)
3 Appeals from the High Court and county courts from 2000
23(8)
4 The background to the Woolf reforms
31(4)
5 Reactions to the Woolf report
35(1)
6 Evaluating the Woolf reforms: research, surveys and comments
36(8)
7 Problems remaining in 2011 and the Jackson Review of Costs
44(11)
8 Judicial review
55(1)
9 Family procedure
56
11 Alternatives to the Civil Courts: Institutions and Procedures
1 Tribunals
2(30)
2 Arbitration
32(4)
3 Alternative dispute resolution
36
12 Criminal Procedure
1 Sources and principles
1(21)
2 Agencies involved in the criminal justice system
22(8)
3 Stages of the criminal process
30
PART IV Professionals in the Law
13 Lawyers
1 Barristers and solicitors
1(1)
2 Training, entering and diversity
2(8)
3 Organisation and regulation
10(12)
4 Work of barristers and solicitors
22(15)
5 Professional etiquette
37(2)
6 The abolition of the professions' monopolies and restrictive practices: Bar wars
39(22)
7 Fusion: do we need two professions?
61
14 Judges
1 The Constitutional Reform Act 2005---a new constitutional framework
2(5)
2 What is meant by the independence of the judiciary?
7(17)
3 Who can apply to be a judge?
24(15)
4 The judicial appointments system from 2006
39(9)
5 Deeper background: problems with the old system of appointing judges
48(8)
6 The remaining problem in 2011---lack of diversity
56(22)
7 Training and appraisal
78(4)
8 Research
82
PART V Laypeople in the Law
15 Magistrates
1 Laypeople in the legal system
1(1)
2 Appointment and removal
2(10)
3 Training
12(1)
4 Organisation
13(1)
5 District judges (magistrates' courts), formerly known as stipendiary magistrates
14(1)
6 Magistrates' clerks
15(2)
7 History
17(1)
8 Should lay justices be replaced by professionals?
18
16 The Jury
1 "The lamp that shows that freedom lives"
1(1)
2 Selection of jurors
2(20)
3 Function of the jury
22(3)
4 Majority verdicts
25(1)
5 Jury secrecy
26(1)
6 Allegations of impropriety or bias
27(2)
7 "Jury equity" and the unreasoned verdict
29(1)
8 History
30(1)
9 Inroads and attempted inroads into the criminal trial jury
31(7)
10 Research
38
PART VI Access to Justice
17 Legal Services
1 The Access to Justice Act 1999 and the 2011 Bill
3(8)
2 Background to the 1999 Act
11(8)
3 Evaluation of Labour's 1999 Act---did it provide access to justice and value for taxpayers' money?
19(12)
4 The "legal aid crisis"---calls for a fundamental restructuring in 2004
31(2)
5 Ken Clarke's plans for legal aid 2010-11
33(578)
Index 611