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• Title:Learning legal rules : a students' guide to legal method and reasoning / James Holland, Julian Webb ; foreword to the first edition by the Rt Hon Lord Templeton MBE.
  
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• Author/Creator:Holland, James A. (Law teacher), author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Webb, Julian S., author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K212 .H65 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 04-29-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Methodology.
  Law--Great Britain--Methodology.
  Law--Great Britain--Interpretation and construction.
  Law--Great Britain.
  Law--European Union countries.
  
• Edition:Tenth edition.
  
• Description:xxi, 393 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"[This book covers]...techniques of legal research, analysis, and argument they will need for their law course and beyond. [The authors] 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."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780198799900 paperback
  019879990X paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding the Law
  1.1. Introduction
  1.2. What is law?
  1.3. sample legal problem
  1.4. functions of law
  1.5. Regulation: legal rules and social rules
  1.6. Parliament and legislation
  1.7. courts
  1.8. importance of procedural law
  1.9. English law and the European Convention on Human Rights
  1.10. English law and the European Union
  Conclusion
  2. Finding the Law
  2.1. Law and legal information in a digital society
  2.2. Developing your information and research skills
  2.3. Literary sources
  2.4. Cases
  2.5. Legislation
  2.6. EU law
  2.7. Online resources
  Conclusion
  3. Reading the Law
  3.1. Reading legislation
  3.2. Reading cases
  3.3. Reading books and articles
  Conclusion
  4. From Reading to Writing
  4.1. Writing legal essays
  4.2. Answering legal problems
  4.3. How to present your answer
  4.4. Planning your answer
  4.5. Referencing your work
  4.6. How are law essays marked?
  Conclusion
  5. Understanding Legal Reasoning
  5.1. Introduction
  5.2. starting point: are judges presumptively rule followers?
  5.3. context of legal reasoning: easy vs hard cases
  5.4. Hard cases and the problem of `underdetermination'
  5.5. Identifying the issues: facts in the context of law
  5.6. Identifying, applying, and interpreting the applicable rules: law in the context of the facts
  5.7. Does'judical style'matter?
  Conclusion
  6. Doctrine of Judicial Precedent
  6.1. Introduction
  6.2. idea of binding precedent (stare decisis)
  6.3. Establishing the principle in a case
  6.4. mechanics of stare decisis
  6.5. combination of exceptions
  6.6. Are there any other exceptions to the application of stare decisis to the Court of Appeal that have emerged since 1944?
  6.7. Does every case have to be heard by the Court of Appeal before it can proceed to the Supreme Court?
  6.8. Precedent in the higher courts: summary
  6.9. Other courts
  6.10. Impact of human rights legislation
  Conclusion
  7. How Precedent Operates: Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum
  7.1. Introduction
  7.2. Development of case law
  7.3. Trying to define ratio decidendi
  7.4. Perception and ratio
  7.5. Ratio and interpretation
  7.6. Summary of the points covered
  7.7. Obiter dictum
  7.8. How precedents develop
  7.9. Summary of the position so far
  7.10. Answering legal questions on precedent
  7.11. Material facts
  7.12. What can happen to a case?
  7.13. postal rule cases
  7.14. `uncertainty principle' of cases
  Conclusion
  8. Making Sense of Statutes
  8.1. Introduction
  8.2. Drafting styles
  8.3. problems of drafting statutes in English law
  8.4. Examples of drafting practices and how to approach them
  8.5. Amending earlier statutes
  Conclusion
  9. Interpreting Statutes
  9.1. Introduction
  9.2. so-called rules of interpretation
  9.3. Examples of the `rules' in action
  9.4. Secondary aids to construction
  9.5. use of Hansard
  9.6. From rules to reality
  9.7. Interpretation and the Human Rights Act 1998
  9.8. Interpreting secondary legislation
  9.9. Illustration of how to analyse a case on statutory interpretation
  Conclusion
  10. `Bringing Rights Home': Legal Method and the Convention Rights
  10.1. Introduction
  10.2. European Convention on Human Rights
  10.3. Incorporation under the Human Rights Act 1998
  10.4. Incorporation under the Devolution Acts
  10.5. consequences for legal method (1): statutory interpretation
  10.6. consequences for legal method (2): precedent
  10.7. Legal research and argumentation
  10.8. future of the Human Rights Act
  Conclusion
  11. European Legal Method
  11.1. European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
  11.2. sources of European Union law
  11.3. How is EU legislation enforced?
  Conclusion.