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Covering the institutions, personnel and procedures, together with the handling of case law and statutes, this book provides a lucid and wide-ranging account of the English Legal System and is widely regarded as the leading work on this subject.
Accompanying the authors' clear and comprehensive narrative are sample court forms,  -tables of essential statistics and flow charts illustrating the court structures.
Among the numerous developments this fifth edition details are significant changes resulting from the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, including the role of the Lord Chancellor, the restructuring of the Judiciary and the establishment of a Supreme Court and a Judicial Appointments Commission.
Similarly, it comments on the changes made by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 affecting procedure, evidence and sentencing in the light of the Auld Report; changes brought about by the Courts Act 2003 relating to courts, magistrates and procedure; and the establishment of SOCA by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
Other legislative developments dealt with by this edition are the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, The Criminal Defence Service Act 2006, the Police and Justice Act 2006, Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, the Legal Services Bill 2007 and Solicitors Code of Conduct 2007.
Key cases analysed include such landmark decisions A v Secretary of State, Leeds City Council v Price, and R (Jackson) v Attorney General.
Additionally, the impact of the accession of a lar ge number of countries joining the EU, the further consolidation of the Woolf Reforms, the growth in significance of ADR, the Law Society's Training Framework Review, and continued pressures on publicly funded legal services are all taken into account.