Cases and Materials: On the English Legal System

This book provides the tools with which any observer of the English legal system can discover how it functions now, and the ideas and proposals for reform.
The organisation of the trial courts, the problems of civil litigation, the correct balance between the citizen and state in criminal cases, the role of the jury, the rules of evidence, the nature of the system of trial, the cost of legal proceedings and the legal aid scheme and the legal profession itself are explored through cases, memoranda of government and private committees and the fruits of empirical research. Editorial notes and questions highlight issues of particular significance.