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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 540 pages, weight: 1064 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Apr-2014
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199669929
  • ISBN-13: 9780199669929
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 540 pages, weight: 1064 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Apr-2014
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199669929
  • ISBN-13: 9780199669929
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English Legal System Directions is written in a highly-readable and engaging manner, with an emphasis on explaining the key topics of English legal system courses with clarity. It offers a sound introduction to the subject, and provides a clear and reliable basis on which students can build their legal studies.

The book incorporates a wide range of learning features to offer students a high level of support. Thinking points, questions, examples, and diagrams throughout encourage an interactive approach to learning, ensuring students understand the fundamental facts and enabling them to check their understanding of the subject as they progress through the course. The book's clear structure enables students to navigate easily through the many aspects of the English legal system, making this an ideal text for students new to the subject. The book also acknowledges the need for student endeavour, and to this end, suggests further reading and useful resources.

The second edition has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date to reflect all recent developments in the law since the publication of the first edition. The book now includes a new chapter on the law and institutions of the EU, while the 'Thinking Points' feature has been developed and expanded throughout.

Online Resource Centre:
An Online Resource Centre provides a wide range of extra resources to further support the student in their studies:

- Advice on studying the English Legal System
- Practical examples of assessment tasks
- Updates on legislation/case law
- 150 multiple-choice questions with answers and feedback
Table of cases
xxvii
Table of statutes
xxxvii
Table of European treaties, directives, and conventions
xlv
Table of statutory instruments
xlvii
1 Studying English legal system
1.1 From 'A' level to degree study
2(1)
1.2 Advice on studying the English legal system
3(2)
1.2.1 Aims and outcomes
4(1)
1.2.2 Syllabus
4(1)
1.2.3 Reading
4(1)
1.3 Lectures
5(2)
1.3.1 Note taking
6(1)
1.3.2 After the lecture
7(1)
1.4 Preparing for seminars or tutorials
7(2)
1.5 Assessment
9(4)
1.5.1 Assignments (forming part of the assessment for English legal system)
9(1)
1.5.2 Importance of assessment criteria
10(1)
1.5.3 Writing an assignment
10(2)
1.5.4 Referencing
12(1)
1.5.5 Finally...
13(1)
1.5.6 What to do after the return of your assignment
13(1)
1.6 A note about group work
13(1)
1.7 Oral presentations
13(1)
1.8 Examinations
14(6)
1.8.1 Preparing for examinations
14(2)
1.8.2 The examination
16(1)
1.8.3 Post-examination
16(4)
2 English legal system - an overview
2.1 What is law? - some basic ideas
20(5)
2.1.1 Recognised as being law
21(1)
2.1.2 Geographical area and commencement
22(1)
2.1.3 The commencement of Acts of Parliament
23(1)
2.1.4 The content of law
23(2)
2.2 Common law and equity
25(3)
2.2.1 Common law
25(1)
2.2.2 Equity
25(2)
2.2.3 Common law - in the sense of judge-made law
27(1)
2.3 Parliament and legislation
28(6)
2.3.1 Relationship between the law of the UK and the law of the European Union
32(1)
2.3.2 Relationship between the law of the UK and the European Convention on Human Rights
33(1)
2.4 Criminal law and civil law - terminology, differences, and themes
34(2)
2.4.1 Criminal
34(1)
2.4.2 Civil
35(1)
2.4.3 Terminology
36(1)
2.5 Classification of the courts
36(15)
2.5.1 Constitutional Reform Act 2005
36(1)
2.5.2 Overview of the composition and jurisdiction of the courts
37(1)
2.5.3 Magistrates' courts
37(2)
2.5.4 Crown Court
39(1)
2.5.5 County courts
40(3)
2.5.6 Family court
43(1)
2.5.7 High Court
44(1)
2.5.8 Court of Appeal
45(2)
2.5.9 Supreme Court
47(2)
2.5.10 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
49(1)
2.5.11 Court of Justice of the European Union
49(1)
2.5.12 European Court of Human Rights
50(1)
2.6 Legal personnel and bodies
51(10)
2.6.1 Lord Chancellor
52(1)
2.6.2 The Attorney General
52(1)
2.6.3 The Director of Public Prosecutions
52(1)
2.6.4 Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
53(1)
2.6.5 The Lord Chief Justice
53(1)
2.6.6 Legal Aid Agency
53(1)
2.6.7 Law reform
54(1)
2.6.8 Lawyers
55(6)
3 Legislation and the law-making process
3.1 Parliament
61(6)
3.1.1 The nature and functions of Parliament
61(1)
3.1.2 The House of Commons
62(1)
3.1.3 The House of Lords
63(3)
3.1.4 Reform of the House of Lords
66(1)
3.2 Primary legislation
67(6)
3.2.1 Public, private, and hybrid legislation
68(1)
3.2.2 'Constitutional' and 'ordinary' legislation?
68(1)
3.2.3 The origins of legislation
69(4)
3.3 The passage of legislation through Parliament
73(9)
3.3.1 Procedure for the passage of a public bill
73(6)
3.3.2 Carrying over bills from one parliamentary session to another
79(1)
3.3.3 The effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny of legislation
80(2)
3.4 Resolving inter-House conflicts using the Parliament Act procedure
82(3)
3.4.1 Money bills
82(1)
3.4.2 Other bills
82(3)
3.5 Secondary legislation
85(14)
3.5.1 Forms of delegated legislation
85(2)
3.5.2 Why is delegated legislation necessary?
87(2)
3.5.3 Possible dangers inherent in secondary legislation
89(1)
3.5.4 Control over delegated legislation
90(9)
4 The interpretation of statutes
4.1 Problems of language
99(1)
4.2 Preliminary issues
100(1)
4.3 The traditional approach to statutory interpretation
101(14)
4.3.1 The literal rule
101(1)
4.3.2 The golden rule
102(2)
4.3.3 The mischief rule
104(1)
4.3.4 Application of the literal, golden, and mischief rules
105(1)
4.3.5 The unified contextual approach
106(5)
4.3.6 The rules of statutory interpretation in action
111(4)
4.4 Aids to construction
115(9)
4.4.1 Aids to construction found within an Act of Parliament
115(2)
4.4.2 Aids to construction found outside an Act of Parliament
117(7)
4.5 Rules of language
124(2)
4.5.1 Expressio unius est exclusio alterius rule
124(1)
4.5.2 Ejusdem generis rule
125(1)
4.5.3 Noscitur a sociis rule
125(1)
4.6 Presumptions of statutory intent
126(2)
4.6.1 Presumptions of general application
126(1)
4.6.2 Presumptions of legislative intent in cases of doubt or ambiguity
126(2)
4.7 Interpretation of legislation and the European Union
128(2)
4.8 Interpretation of legislation and the Human Rights Act 1998
130(7)
5 The doctrine of judicial precedent
5.1 Judicial precedent and law reporting
137(1)
5.2 Nature of judge-made law
138(3)
5.3 Ratio decidendi
141(8)
5.3.1 Identification of the ratio decidendi of a case
141(2)
5.3.2 Cases on the interpretation of statutes
143(2)
5.3.3 Looking to later cases in determining the ratio decidendi of a case
145(1)
5.3.4 Finding the ratio decidendi - an illustration
146(2)
5.3.5 More than one ratio
148(1)
5.3.6 The ratio decidendi of appellate courts
149(1)
5.4 Obiter dicta
149(1)
5.5 Nature of stare decisis
150(19)
5.5.1 The Court of Justice of the European Union
151(1)
5.5.2 The Supreme Court/House of Lords
151(5)
5.5.3 Court of Appeal
156(8)
5.5.4 High Court - Divisional Courts at first instance
164(3)
5.5.5 The Crown Court
167(1)
5.5.6 County courts and magistrates' courts
167(1)
5.5.7 Family court
167(1)
5.5.8 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
167(1)
5.5.9 Judicial precedent, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the European Court of Human Rights
168(1)
5.6 Methods of avoiding precedents
169(2)
5.6.1 Overruling
169(1)
5.6.2 Reversing
170(1)
5.6.3 Distinguishing
171(1)
5.7 Nature of the rules of judicial precedent
171(1)
5.8 Case analysis
172(7)
6 The law and institutions of the European Union
6.1 The history of the European Union
179(3)
6.1.1 The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
179(1)
6.1.2 The European Economic Community
180(1)
6.1.3 Geographical enlargement and legal expansion
180(1)
6.1.4 The European Union and other developments
181(1)
6.1.5 The state of the Union
181(1)
6.2 The institutions of the EU
182(3)
6.2.1 European Council
182(1)
6.2.2 Council of the European Union
182(1)
6.2.3 European Commission
182(1)
6.2.4 European Parliament
183(1)
6.2.5 Court of Justice of the European Union
184(1)
6.2.6 General Court
185(1)
6.2.7 European Central Bank
185(1)
6.2.8 European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
185(1)
6.2.9 Committee of the Regions (CoR)
185(1)
6.2.10 Civil Service Tribunal
185(1)
6.3 Sources of EU law
185(3)
6.3.1 The Treaties
185(1)
6.3.2 Secondary legislation: an introduction
186(1)
6.3.3 Regulations
186(1)
6.3.4 Directives
187(1)
6.3.5 Decisions
188(1)
6.3.6 Recommendations and opinions
188(1)
6.3.7 Case law
188(1)
6.4 The preliminary rulings procedure
188(9)
6.4.1 Introduction
188(1)
6.4.2 Purpose
189(1)
6.4.3 Scope
189(1)
6.4.4 Who can seek a preliminary ruling?
189(2)
6.4.5 Discretionary and mandatory referral
191(1)
6.4.6 Avoiding mandatory referral
191(2)
6.4.7 Docket control
193(1)
6.4.8 Preliminary rulings on validity
194(1)
6.4.9 The urgent procedure
194(1)
6.4.10 Reform of the preliminary rulings procedure
194(3)
6.5 Supremacy of EU law
197(1)
6.6 Direct effect
198(8)
6.6.1 Introduction
198(1)
6.6.2 Direct effect and Treaty articles
198(2)
6.6.3 Direct effect and regulations
200(1)
6.6.4 Direct effect and directives
200(3)
6.6.5 The incidental direct effect of directives
203(1)
6.6.6 Indirect effect
204(2)
6.7 State liability
206(11)
6.7.1 Introduction
206(1)
6.7.2 The conditions for State liability
207(2)
6.7.3 What is the 'State?
209(1)
6.7.4 Limitations
209(8)
7 Human rights and fundamental freedoms
7.1 The European Convention on Human Rights and the incorporation of Convention rights into UK law
217(4)
7.1.1 The European Convention on Human Rights
217(1)
7.1.2 The Human Rights Act 1998 and incorporation of 'Convention rights' into UK law
218(2)
7.1.3 Derogation from Convention rights
220(1)
7.2 Parliamentary sovereignty and the European Convention on Human Rights
221(1)
7.3 Interpretation of legislation under section 3
222(4)
7.4 Declaration of incompatibility
226(1)
7.5 Statements of compatibility in Parliament
227(1)
7.6 Remedying incompatibility
228(1)
7.6.1 Primary legislation incompatible
228(1)
7.6.2 Subordinate legislation incompatible
229(1)
7.7 The UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights
229(3)
7.8 Unlawful for a public authority to act incompatibly with Convention rights
232(16)
7.8.1 Vertical and horizontal rights
233(1)
7.8.2 Meaning of public authority
234(2)
7.8.3 Determining what is a public authority
236(3)
7.8.4 Enforcement of Convention rights
239(1)
7.8.5 Remedies
240(8)
8 The judiciary
8.1 The judicial hierarchy
248(8)
8.1.1 The Lord Chancellor
249(1)
8.1.2 Justices of the Supreme Court
250(1)
8.1.3 Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
251(1)
8.1.4 Master of the Rolls
252(1)
8.1.5 Heads of Division
252(1)
8.1.6 Judges in the Court of Appeal
252(1)
8.1.7 Lords Justices of Appeal
252(1)
8.1.8 High Court judges
252(1)
8.1.9 High Court Masters and Registrars
253(1)
8.1.10 Circuit judges
253(1)
8.1.11 Recorders
254(1)
8.1.12 District judges
254(1)
8.1.13 District Judges (Magistrates' Courts)
254(1)
8.1.14 Magistrates-Justices of the Peace (JPs)
255(1)
8.2 Appointment of the judiciary
256(11)
8.2.1 The Peach Report
256(5)
8.2.2 Diversity in judicial appointments
261(5)
8.2.3 Alternative methods of appointment
266(1)
8.3 Removal and retirement
267(1)
8.4 Judicial independence
268(2)
8.5 Governance of the judiciary
270(9)
8.5.1 Training the judiciary
271(1)
8.5.2 Judicial conduct
272(7)
9 The legal profession
9.1 The legal profession
279(1)
9.2 Solicitors
279(10)
9.2.1 The work of solicitors
281(1)
9.2.2 Representation in court
282(1)
9.2.3 Sole practitioners and partnerships
282(2)
9.2.4 Qualification
284(2)
9.2.5 The composition of the solicitors' profession
286(1)
9.2.6 The Law Society and the Solicitors Regulation Authority
287(1)
9.2.7 Complaints about solicitors
287(1)
9.2.8 Solicitors Regulation Authority Code of Conduct
287(1)
9.2.9 Liability of solicitors
288(1)
9.3 Barristers
289(9)
9.3.1 `Cab rank' rule
289(1)
9.3.2 Barristers' direct access to clients
290(1)
9.3.3 Restrictions on partnerships
290(1)
9.3.4 Qualification
291(2)
9.3.5 The Inns of Court
293(1)
9.3.6 Deferral of call
294(1)
9.3.7 Queen's Counsel (QCs)
294(1)
9.3.8 The composition of the barristers' profession
295(1)
9.3.9 The Bar Council
295(1)
9.3.10 Complaints about barristers
296(1)
9.3.11 Barristers' professional Code of Conduct
296(1)
9.3.12 Liability of barristers
296(2)
9.4 Regulation of the professions and reform: The Clementi Review
298(4)
9.4.1 The Legal Services Board
299(1)
9.4.2 The Office for Legal Complaints
299(1)
9.4.3 Alternative business structures
300(2)
9.5 Should the professions of barrister and solicitor be amalgamated?
302(1)
9.6 Legal executives
303(1)
9.7 Licensed conveyancers
303(1)
9.8 Paralegals
303(7)
10 The jury
10.1 The role of the jury
310(10)
10.1.1 The jury's function in criminal trials
310(1)
10.1.2 Jury equity
311(2)
10.1.3 Appeals against decisions of the jury and the 'confidentiality' principle
313(6)
10.1.4 Majority verdicts
319(1)
10.1.5 The jury's function in civil trials
319(1)
10.2 The selection of the jury
320(10)
10.2.1 Liability to serve
320(1)
10.2.2 Ineligibility
320(7)
10.2.3 Disqualifications
327(1)
10.2.4 Excusal
328(1)
10.2.5 The process of selection
329(1)
10.3 Challenges to jury membership
330(3)
10.3.1 Challenge 'for cause'
330(1)
10.3.2 Challenge by the prosecution
331(1)
10.3.3 Abolition of the defence 'peremptory challenge'
332(1)
10.3.4 Challenge to the array
333(1)
10.4 Jury vetting
333(1)
10.4.1 Police vetting
333(1)
10.4.2 Further vetting in 'exceptional cases'
334(1)
10.5 The ethnic composition of the jury
334(3)
10.5.1 Objections in principle
335(1)
10.5.2 Objections in practice
336(1)
10.6 Jury intimidation or 'tampering'
337(6)
10.6.1 Juries in England and Wales
337(5)
10.6.2 Criminal juries in Northern Ireland
342(1)
10.7 Juries in serious fraud trials
343(2)
10.8 Jury waiver
345(2)
10.9 Jurors, social media, and the internet
347(2)
10.10 Advantages of jury trials
349(2)
10.10.1 Public participation
349(1)
10.10.2 Juries are the best judges of facts
350(1)
10.10.3 Clear separation of responsibility
350(1)
10.10.4 Encourages openness and intelligibility
350(1)
10.11 Disadvantages
351(13)
10.11.1 Cost and time
351(1)
10.11.2 Risk of perverse verdicts
351(3)
10.11.3 Racist jurors in criminal trials
354(1)
10.11.4 Compulsory jury service
355(1)
10.11.5 Distress caused to jury members
355(1)
10.11.6 Lacking skill?
355(9)
11 Access to justice
11.1 Legal Aid Agency
364(1)
11.2 Civil Legal Advice Service
364(7)
11.2.1 Availability of funding
365(2)
11.2.2 Community Legal Service partnerships
367(1)
11.2.3 Citizens' Advice Bureaux
367(1)
11.2.4 Law Centres
368(1)
11.2.5 Student law clinics
368(1)
11.2.6 Pro bono schemes
368(1)
11.2.7 Conditional fee agreements
368(3)
11.2.8 Before the event insurance (BTE)
371(1)
11.3 Criminal legal aid
371(2)
11.3.1 Direct funding
371(2)
11.3.2 Public defenders
373(1)
11.4 Recent history of legal aid reform
373(10)
12 The criminal process: the suspect and the police
12.1 The structure and organisation of the police
383(2)
12.2 PACE and the Codes of Practice
385(1)
12.3 Police powers to search, seize property, and make arrests
386(12)
12.3.1 Powers to stop and search and seize articles
387(4)
12.3.2 Rowers to make arrests
391(4)
12.3.3 Power to enter and search premises and seize articles
395(1)
12.3.4 Power to search a person following arrest
396(1)
12.3.5 Policing protestors
396(2)
12.4 The suspect at the police station
398(12)
12.4.1 Arrival at the police station
398(2)
12.4.2 Detention conditions and care and treatment of detainees
400(1)
12.4.3 The police station interview
401(1)
12.4.4 Confessions made by the accused
402(3)
12.4.5 The accused's silence at the police station
405(2)
12.4.6 Review and extension of detention
407(2)
12.4.7 Photographs, fingerprints, and samples
409(1)
12.5 Charging a detainee and the decision to prosecute
410(11)
12.5.1 After charge
413(8)
13 The criminal process: pre-trial and trial
13.1 The criminal courts of trial and the classification of offences
421(2)
13.2 Instituting criminal proceedings
423(5)
13.2.1 The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
423(1)
13.2.2 Commencing criminal proceedings
424(1)
13.2.3 Written charge and requisition
424(1)
13.2.4 Information and summons
424(1)
13.2.5 Time limits
425(1)
13.2.6 Fixed penalty notices for road traffic offences and penalty notices for disorder
425(3)
13.3 The Auld Review
428(1)
13.4 The Criminal Procedure Rules 2013
429(1)
13.5 First hearings
429(1)
13.6 Pre-trial hearings: summary only offences
430(1)
13.7 Pre-trial hearings: either way offences
430(4)
13.7.1 Plea before venue
430(1)
13.7.2 Allocation procedure
431(2)
13.7.3 Abolition of committal proceedings
433(1)
13.8 Pre-trial hearings: indictable only offences
434(1)
13.9 Plea and Case Management Hearings in the Crown Court
435(1)
13.10 Indictments
436(1)
13.11 Plea bargaining
437(2)
13.12 Bail
439(3)
13.12.1 Remand in custody
439(1)
13.12.2 Remand on bail
440(2)
13.13 Pre-trial issues: disclosure
442(1)
13.13.1 Section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967
442(1)
13.13.2 Unused material
442(1)
13.14 Trial on indictment
443(5)
13.14.1 The case for the prosecution
444(2)
13.14.2 Defence submissions of no case to answer
446(1)
13.14.3 The case for the defence
446(1)
13.14.4 Closing speeches by prosecution and defence advocates
447(1)
13.14.5 The trial judge's summing up
447(1)
13.15 Summary trial
448(1)
13.16 Evidential issues
448(9)
13.16.1 Burden and standard of proof
448(1)
13.16.2 Competence and compellability of witnesses
449(1)
13.16.3 Special measures directions
450(2)
13.16.4 Expert evidence
452(2)
13.16.5 Bad character
454(2)
13.16.6 Good character
456(1)
13.16.7 Silence: failure of the defendant to testify
456(1)
13.17 Verdicts
457(8)
13.17.1 Trial on indictment
457(1)
13.17.2 Summary trial
458(1)
13.17.3 Re-trials
458(7)
14 Sentencing
14.1 Statutory provisions governing the sentencing of offenders
465(1)
14.2 The purposes of sentencing
466(1)
14.3 Maximum sentences
467(2)
14.4 Determining the appropriate sentence
469(3)
14.4.1 Pre-sentence reports
469(1)
14.4.2 Offence seriousness, aggravating and mitigating factors
469(2)
14.4.3 Sentencing guidelines
471(1)
14.5 Newton hearings
472(1)
14.6 Offences taken into consideration
472(1)
14.7 Types of sentence
473(8)
14.7.1 Absolute and conditional discharges
473(1)
14.7.2 Fines
473(1)
14.7.3 Community orders
474(1)
14.7.4 Custodial sentences
475(5)
14.7.5 Other sentences and orders upon sentence
480(1)
14.8 Sentencing youths
481(9)
14.8.1 Aims of youth sentencing
481(1)
14.8.2 Absolute and conditional discharges
482(1)
14.8.3 Fine
482(1)
14.8.4 Referral orders
482(1)
14.8.5 Youth rehabilitation orders
482(1)
14.8.6 Custodial sentences
483(7)
15 The civil process
15.1 The nature of civil proceedings
490(1)
15.2 The Woolf reforms
490(5)
15.2.1 The Civil Procedure Rules
491(2)
15.2.2 The overriding objective and the court's duty to manage cases
493(1)
15.2.3 The Jackson Review
494(1)
15.3 The civil courts
495(3)
15.3.1 The county courts
495(1)
15.3.2 The High Court
496(2)
15.4 Case management powers
498(2)
15.5 Commencing civil proceedings
500(4)
15.5.1 Preliminary matters
500(1)
15.5.2 Pre-action protocols
501(1)
15.5.3 Claim forms
502(2)
15.5.4 Part 8 claims
504(1)
15.6 Responding to particulars of claim, acknowledgement of service, admissions, and default judgments
504(3)
15.6.1 Filing a defence or a reply
504(1)
15.6.2 Filing an acknowledgement of service
505(1)
15.6.3 Default judgments
505(1)
15.6.4 Formal admissions
506(1)
15.6.5 Stay of proceedings
506(1)
15.7 Allocation and case management tracks
507(6)
15.7.1 The small claims track
509(1)
15.7.2 The fast track
510(2)
15.7.3 The multi-track
512(1)
15.8 The disclosure and inspection of documents
513(1)
15.8.1 Without prejudice communications
514(1)
15.9 Part 36 offers
514(2)
15.10 Qualified One Way Costs Shifting
516(1)
15.11 Applying for court orders
517(1)
15.12 Summary judgment
518(1)
15.13 Civil trial
519(2)
15.13.1 Burden and standard of proof in civil proceedings
520(1)
15.14 Evidence in civil proceedings
521(4)
15.14.1 Exclusionary discretion
521(1)
15.14.2 The evidence of witnesses in civil proceedings
522(1)
15.14.3 Witness summonses and the competence and compellability of witnesses
523(1)
15.14.4 Expert evidence in civil proceedings
523(2)
15.15 Costs
525(1)
15.15.1 Costs-only proceedings
526(1)
15.16 Enforcement of judgments and orders
526(7)
16 Criminal and civil appeals
16.1 Criminal appeals
533(11)
16.1.1 Appeals from magistrates' courts
533(1)
16.1.2 Appeals to the Crown Court from magistrates' courts
533(2)
16.1.3 Appeals by way of case stated from magistrates' courts to the High Court
535(1)
16.1.4 Applications for judicial review of decisions made by magistrates' courts
535(1)
16.1.5 Bail: appeals from magistrates' courts
536(1)
16.1.6 Appeals from the Crown Court
536(4)
16.1.7 Miscarriages of justice and the Criminal Cases Review Commission
540(2)
16.1.8 Bail: appeals from the Crown Court
542(1)
16.1.9 Attorney General's references
542(1)
16.1.10 Appeals by way of case stated from Crown Court decisions
543(1)
16.1.11 Applications for judicial review of decisions of the Crown Court
544(1)
16.1.12 Appeals to the Supreme Court
544(1)
16.2 Civil appeals
544(10)
16.2.1 Permission to appeal
545(1)
16.2.2 The nature and consequences of a civil appeal
546(1)
16.2.3 Avenues of appeal
546(1)
16.2.4 Composition of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
547(1)
16.2.5 Leapfrog appeals in civil courts
547(1)
16.2.6 'Second appeals' to the Court of Appeal and appeals to the Supreme Court
548(6)
17 Tribunals and alternative dispute resolution
17.1 Tribunals
554(7)
17.1.1 Background
554(1)
17.1.2 What is a tribunal?
555(1)
17.1.3 The organisation of tribunals: the Tribunals Service
556(3)
17.1.4 Membership of tribunals
559(1)
17.1.5 Appointment of tribunal judges and lay members
560(1)
17.1.6 Supervising the tribunal system
560(1)
17.2 Arbitration
561(1)
17.2.1 Commercial arbitration - general principles
561(1)
17.2.2 Arbitrators
561(1)
17.2.3 Appeals and judicial review
562(1)
17.3 Mediation
562(8)
17.3.1 The scope of mediation
563(1)
17.3.2 The 'cost consequences' of a failure to mediate
564(4)
17.3.3 The importance of the voluntary nature of mediation
568(2)
17.4 Other forms of ADR
570(2)
17.4.1 Adjudication
570(1)
17.4.2 Conciliation
570(1)
17.4.3 Med-arb
570(1)
17.4.4 Early neutral evaluation/expert determination
571(1)
17.4.5 Industry codes of conduct
572(1)
17.5 Court's powers to 'stay' litigation
572(1)
17.6 Problems with court hearings
573(2)
17.6.1 High cost
573(1)
17.6.2 Adversarial procedure
574(1)
17.6.3 Inaccessible
574(1)
17.6.4 Inflexible
574(1)
17.6.5 Publicity
574(1)
17.6.6 Imposed solutions
574(1)
17.7 Advantages of ADR
575(2)
17.7.1 Low cost
575(1)
17.7.2 Speed
575(1)
17.7.3 Informality
575(1)
17.7.4 Accessibility
575(1)
17.7.5 Expertise
576(1)
17.7.6 Privacy
576(1)
17.7.7 Agreed solutions (mediation)
576(1)
17.7.8 Eases pressure on the courts
576(1)
17.8 Disadvantages of ADR
577(8)
17.8.1 Non-availability of legal aid
577(1)
17.8.2 Lack of legal expertise
577(1)
17.8.3 Imbalance of power
577(1)
17.8.4 No system of precedent
578(1)
17.8.5 'Legalism' in arbitration and tribunals
578(7)
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Steve Wilson is a principal lecturer at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He has contributed to, and co-authored, a range of articles and student textbooks on the English legal system and various aspects of contract law. Helen Rutherford is a senior lecturer at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. She is a qualified solicitor and teaches litigation on the LPC and MLaw degree as well as English legal system on the open learning degree. Tony Storey is a senior lecturer at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. Tony has co-authored a number of student textbooks on criminal law and the European Union. Natalie Wortley is a principal lecturer at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle where she teaches criminal law, evidence, and advocacy.