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Legal Method, 8th Edition

Legal Method, 8th Edition

Author: Ian McLeod
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230285682
Published In: March 2011
Format: Paperback , 352 pages
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The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors.

This eighth edition of Legal Method provides a lively introduction to the nature of the English legal system and its sources, and to the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources. The text assumes no prior knowledge and makes its content accessible by clarity of expression rather than by dilution of content. In addition to more conventional sources, writers as varied as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and T. S. Eliot are cited.

This is an ideal course companion for both law undergraduate and GDL/CPE students. The new enhanced layout includes end of chapter summaries and self-test exercises.

PART I: IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS

An Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
The Classifications of English Law
The Jurisdictions of the Principal English Courts
The Constitutional Context of Legal Method
European Community Law and English Law
The Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Finding, Citing and Using the Sources of Law

PART II: CASE-LAW AND PRECEDENT

An Introduction to the Doctrine of Binding Precedent
Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum
Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Precedent
Does the House of Lords Bind Itself?
Does the Court of Appeal Bind Itself?
Does the High Court Bind Itself?
Arguments For and Against Judicial Law Making
Precedent and Principle in the European Court of Justice

PART III: LEGISLATION AND LEGISLATIVE INTERPRETATION

An Introduction to Statute Law and Statutory Interpretation
Statutory Drafting
Plain Meanings, Mischiefs, Purposes and Legislative Intention
Modern Interpretation in Practice
Legislative Interpretation in the European Court of Justice

Ian McLeod LLB BA BPhil Solicitor is Visiting Professor of Law at Teesside University and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is the author of Legal Theory, Key Concepts in Law and (with Simon Askey) Studying Law, all published by Palgrave Macmillan.

'This book continues to be the most erudite and yet readable book of its kind' -Leonard Jason-Lloyd, Visiting Fellow at the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University, UK

'...accessible and extremely well written.' - Nicola Rees and Emily Marshall, The Law Teacher