The English Legal System, 2011-2012 by Gary Slapper, David Kelly

By Gary Slapper, David Kelly

Slapper and Kelly’s The English felony System explains and severely assesses how our legislation is made and utilized. each year up-to-date, this authoritative textbook basically describes the criminal ideas of britain and Wales and their collective impression as a sociocultural institution.

This most up-to-date version of The English criminal System responds to the proposals of the newly elected coalition govt as they impact the criminal approach in addition to the newest laws and case legislation. The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, the Crime and defense Act 2010, new eu legislation and the newest judgements of the ideal court docket are all included into the textual content, and this variation additionally digests contemporary study at the paintings of juries and the legal courts, and the 2010 adjustments to the legislation of, and govt contributions in the direction of, criminal services.

Key studying good points include:

  • a transparent and logical constitution with brief, attainable, well-structured person chapters;
  • useful bankruptcy summaries which act as an outstanding money aspect for students;
  • sources for additional analyzing and instructed web pages on the finish of every bankruptcy to indicate scholars in the direction of extra studying pathways;
  • an on-line talents community together with how tos, functional examples, counsel, suggestion and interactive examples of English legislation in action.

Relied upon via generations of scholars, Slapper and Kelly’s The English felony System is an enduring fixture during this ever evolving subject.

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673 Wood v Law Society [1995] NPC 39, CA .... 581 Wynne v UK [1994] 19 EHRR 333 .... 371, 372, 373 X (Minors) v Bedfordshire County Council [1995] 3 WLR 152 .... 126 YL v Birmingham City Council [2007] UKHL 27; [2008] 1 AC 95; [2007] 3 All ER 957, HL .... 47 Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718 .... 126, 128, 132 XXXI TABLE OF STATUTES Abortion Act 1967 .... 79 Access to Health Records Act 1990 .... 200, 224 Access to Justice Act 1999 .... 167–9, 215, 252, 259, 334, 553, 577, 589, 596, 597, 600, 603, 606, 607, 613, 618, 619, 622, 631, 633, 641, 642 Pt I ....

160, 165 Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 .... 165 Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 s 5 .... 149 s 6 .... 149 Drug Trafficking Act 1994 .... 52, 306, 308 Employment Rights Act 1996 .... 550 s 50 .... 427 Employment Tribunals Act 1996 .... 548 Enterprise Act 2002 .... 164, 355 Equal Pay Act 1970 .... 548, 655 European Communities Act 1972 .... 174, 650–2, 655, 679 s 2 .... 653 s 2(1) .... 651, 656 s 2(2) .... 107, 656 s 2(4) .... 651 s 3 .... 128 s 3(1) .... 130 European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 ....

406 s 88(3) .... 408 s 94(3) .... 408 s 108 .... 421 s 110 .... 405 Sch 8 .... 408 Sch 12 .... 404 Consumer Credit Act 1974 .... 29, 185, 206 Contempt of Court Act 1981 s 8 .... 377, 483, 486, 500, 501, 516, 517, 519 s 8(1) .... 483, 516, 519 Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 .... 149 Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001 .... 367 Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 .... 150 Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 .... 72 County Courts Act 1984 .... 107, 504 s 74A ....

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