Legal Method

"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 (review of previous edition)

This popular and long established text provides a lively introduction to both the nature of the English legal system and its sources, and the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources.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 ninth 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. Includes end of chapter summaries and self-test exercises.