1. The English Legal System

Autor: Alisdair Gillespie, Siobhan Weare
Rok vydání: 2017
DOI: 10.1093/he/9780198785439.003.0001
Popis: This chapter provides an introduction to the English Legal System. Specifically, it explains the meaning of the terms ‘English’, ‘legal’, and ‘system’. It first provides an overview of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, namely England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It describes the types of law that exist and attempts to define what law is. It then discusses the English legal system, which is based on common law and is an adversarial system.
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