Introduction -- Courts and tribunals -- Lawyers -- Judges -- Legislation -- Statutory interpretation -- Judicial precedent -- The Human Rights Act 1998 -- Problems about problems -- Information and advice services -- Features of litigation and other methods of dispute resolution -- Pre-trial civil procedure -- Pre-hearing: tribunals -- Pre-trial criminal procedure -- The civil trial -- The tribunal hearing -- The criminal trial -- Appeals and judicial review / Widely regarded as the leading work on this subject. Provides a lucid and wide -ranging account of the English Legal System covering the institutions, personnel and procedures, and the handling of case law and statutes. The text is accompanied by sample court forms, tables of essential statistics and flow charts illustrating the court structures.