Cases and Materials on the English Legal System - Grand Format

Combining materials from a wide variety of sources with Michael Zander's authoritative commentary, this book provides the tools with which an observer of the English legal system can discover how it functions, the problems it faces and the current reforms proposed. The organisation of the trial courts, the problems of civil litigation, the balance between the citizen and state in criminal cases, the trial and appeal process including the basic rules of evidence, the jury, the cost and funding of legal proceedings and the present state of the legal profession are explored by the author, drawing on a wealth of cases, reports of official and other bodies, parliamentary debates and the fruits of empirical research.
The tenth edition bas been extensively revised with a mass of new material. Major developments since the ninth edition include : the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, new research on the effect of the Woolf reforms, the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005, significant changes to PACE and revised PACE Codes (January 2006), the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005and the Terrorism Act 2006, new arrangements for the charging of suspects, the Disclosure Protocol 2006, the suspect's right to ask for an indication of sentence, general eligibility for jury service, the introduction of fixed fees for some categories of litigation, Lord Carter's Review of the procurement of legal aid (July 2006) and the 2006 consultation paper Legal Aid : A Sustainable Future ?, the new system for appointing QCs, the Clementi Review of regulation of legal services (2004) and the Legal Services Bill (2006).
There have also been a large number of new cases.