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Description
Legal Method provides a lively introduction to both the nature of the English legal system and its sources, and the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources. The text assumes no prior knowledge and makes its content accessible by clarity of explanation rather than by dilution of content. In addition to more conventional sources, authors as varied as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, W.S. Gilbert and T.S. Eliot are cited.
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Contents
Part I – Ideas and Institutions
1. An Introduction to law and legal Reasoning
2. The Classification of English Law
3. The Jurisdictions of the Principal English Courts
4. The Constitutional Context of Legal Method
5. European Community Law and English Law
6. The Protection of human rights and fundamental freedom
7. Finding, Citing and Using the Sources of law
Part II – Case Law and Precedent
8. An Introduction to the doctrine of binding precedent
9. Ratio decidendi and obiter dictum
10. Vertical and Horizontal dimensions of precedent
11. Does the House of Lords bind itself
12. Does the Court of Appeal bind itself?
13. Does the High Court bind itself?
14. Arguments for and against judicial law making
15. Precedent and Principle in the European Court of Justice
Part III – Legislation and Legislative Interpretation
16. An Introduction to statute law and statutory interpretation
17. Statutory drafting
18. Plain meanings, mischiefs and Purposes
19. The Idea of Legislative Intention
20. Modern Statutory Interpretation in Practice
21. Legislative Interpretation in the European Court of Justice
Appendix 1 - Law reports and Journals
Appendix 2 - Extracts from the Interpretation Act 1978
Appendix 3 - Articles 2-12 and 14 of, and Articles 1-3 of the first Protocol and Articles 1 & 2 of the sixth protocol to, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom 1950
Selected further Reading
Index
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Author Details
lan McLeod, LLB BA BPhil Solicitor is Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Teesside, UK, and Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, UK. His other books from Palgrave Macmillan include Legal Theory, Key Concepts in Law and (as co-author) Studying Law.
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