TY - GEN AU - McLeod, Ian TI - Legal Method / SN - 9781137027689 U1 - 349.42 PY - 2013/// CY - United kingdom PB - Red Globe Press KW - Law England Methodology KW - Law Methodology KW - Law Wales Methodology N1 - Part I Ideas and institutions 1 An introduction to law and legal reasoning 2 The classifications of English law 3 The jurisdictions of the principal English courts 4 The constitutional context of legal method 5 European Union law and English law 6 The protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms 7 Finding, citing and using the sources of law Part II Case-law and precedent 8 An introduction to the doctrine of binding precedent 9 Ratio decidendi and obiter dictum 10 Vertical and horizontal dimensions of precedent 11 Does the Supreme Court bind itself? 12 Does the Court of Appeal bind itself? 13 Does the High Court bind itself? 14 Arguments for and against judicial law-making 15 Precedent and principle in the Erropean Court of Justice Part III Legislation and legislative interpretation 16 An introduction to statute law and statutory interpretation 17 Statutory drafting 18 Plain meanings, mischiefs, purposes and legislative intention 19 Modern statutory interpretation in practice 20 Legislative interpretation in the European Court of Justice N2 - This self-contained study and foundation book for legal training deals with how the course of law (both English and European Community) resolves the uncertainties that arise within the law, the basis of legal reasoning, and the nature of law itself. (Source: WorldCat) ER -