Full Description
Written by leading authors with extensive experience in both teaching and practice, this established and trusted title equips the student with all the techniques of legal research, analysis, and argument they will need for their law course and beyond. The 9th edition has been fully updated to include recent debates such as the future of the Human Rights Act in the UK; it also continues to provide dedicated coverage on complex areas such as the operation of precedent,effective statutory interpretation, and European legal method. Holland & Webb take an engaging and practical approach with examples and exercises throughout which allow students to develop their knowledge and their reasoning skills making this an ideal text for first year students.Learning Legal Rules is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, complete with a test bank of 200 multiple choice questions for use by lecturers, and self-test questions for students.
Contents
12: Finding the law3: Reading the law4: From reading to writing5: Law, fact, and language6: The doctrine of judicial precedent7: How precedent operates: ratio decidendi and obiter dictum8: Making sense of statutes9: Interpreting statutes10: 'Bringing rights home': legal method and convention rights11: European legal method12: Exploiting legal reasoning
