The nature of law and the English legal system

Nature of law

Nature of law: law and society

Nature of law: law and morality

Nature of law: law and justice

The rule of law

Law making: parliamentary law making

Law making: delegated legislation

Law making: statutory interpretation

Law making: judicial precedent

Law making: law reform

Law making: the European Union

The legal system: the civil courts and other forms of dispute resolution

The legal system: the criminal courts and lay people

The legal system: legal personnel and the judiciary

The legal system: access to justice and funding

Criminal law

The rules of criminal law

Theory in criminal law

General elements of liability

Fatal offences against the person

Non-fatal offences against the person

Property offences and preliminary offence (attempt)

Defences: capacity defences

Defences: necessity defences

Tort

The rules of tort law

Theory of tort law

Liability in negligence for physical injury to people and damage to property

Liability in negligence for economic loss and psychiatric injury

Occupiers' liability

Nuisance and the escape of dangerous things

Vicarious liability

Defences

Remedies

Law of contract

The rules of contract law

Theory of contract law

Essential requirements of contract

Contract terms: general

Contract terms: specific terms implied by statute law in relation to consumer contracts

Contract terms: exclusion clauses

Vitiating factors

Discharge of a contract

Remedies

Human Rights

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