How the law works / Gary Slapper.
- Title
- How the law works / Gary Slapper.
- Published by
- Abingdon, Oxon [United Kingdom] : Routledge, 2014.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 303 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "How the Law Works is a refreshingly clear and reliable guide to today's legal system. Offering interesting and comprehensive coverage, it makes sense of all the curious features of the law in day to day life and in current affairs. Explaining the law and legal jargon in plain English, it provides an accessible entry point to the different types of law and legal techniques, as well as today's compensation culture and human rights law. In addition to explaining the role of judges, lawyers, juries and parliament, it clarifies the mechanisms behind criminal and civil law"--Unedited summary from book cover.
- Subject
- Contents
- The importance of law -- Judges -- Lawyers -- Cases and the courts -- Case technique -- Interpreting acts of parliament -- Types of law -- The jury -- Language and law -- Miscellany.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain