Legal Method and ReasoningSharon Hanson Language skills,study skills, argument skills and legal knowledge are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. Legal Method Reasoning offers a range of 'how to' techniques for acquiring these skills. It shows how to handle and use legal texts, how to read and write about the law, how to acquire disciplined study techniques and how to construct legal arguments. This new edition will be of value to both undergraduate and postgraduate law students. |
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... area. The changes made have in fact led to a change in the name of the book from Legal Method to Legal Method ... areas by keeping them (somewhat unrealistically) distinct. A second major change is the complete revision of the way ...
... area. The changes made have in fact led to a change in the name of the book from Legal Method to Legal Method ... areas by keeping them (somewhat unrealistically) distinct. A second major change is the complete revision of the way ...
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... area of law; • highly competent argument identification, construction and evaluation skills. The primary focus of this legal method book will be the legal text. Texts of the law (statutes, law reports) and texts about the law (textbooks ...
... area of law; • highly competent argument identification, construction and evaluation skills. The primary focus of this legal method book will be the legal text. Texts of the law (statutes, law reports) and texts about the law (textbooks ...
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... area; • demonstrate interconnections between seemingly disconnected areas/texts/ skills. To emphasise the value of diagrams, Figure 1.1, below, sets out the disarmingly simple, broad structure of this text. Where specific materials are ...
... area; • demonstrate interconnections between seemingly disconnected areas/texts/ skills. To emphasise the value of diagrams, Figure 1.1, below, sets out the disarmingly simple, broad structure of this text. Where specific materials are ...
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... areas and how to learn; new information about subjects, ideas, ways of seeing, arguing and thinking have to be understood, evaluated and used. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines 'learning' as the obtaining of knowledge about ...
... areas and how to learn; new information about subjects, ideas, ways of seeing, arguing and thinking have to be understood, evaluated and used. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines 'learning' as the obtaining of knowledge about ...
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... area of their study. That a wide range of skills is needed for the study of law should by now be quite clear. The required skills can be generically grouped into: (a) general study skills; (b) language skills; (c) legal method skills ...
... area of their study. That a wide range of skills is needed for the study of law should by now be quite clear. The required skills can be generically grouped into: (a) general study skills; (b) language skills; (c) legal method skills ...
Contents
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3 Reading and Understanding Legislation | 29 |
4 Reading and Understanding Law Reports | 61 |
5 Reading English LawThe
European Dimension | 113 |
6 Reading Books About LawA
Reading Strategy | 173 |
7 Legal Argument Construction | 196 |
8 Writing Essays and Answers to Problem Questions | 251 |
Using Primary and Secondary Legal Texts to Construct Arguments in Answer to One Particular Question | 269 |
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Conclusion | 305 |
English Primary Legal Texts | 309 |
The European Dimension 1 Primary
and Secondary Texts | 331 |
The European Dimension 2 Factortame Case Study Materials
and Extracts From Tillotson | 371 |
Bibliography | 468 |
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applicants areas argument construction Article 177 British fishing vessels chapter Commission Common Fisheries Policy competent concerned considered Council Court of Appeal Court of Justice decided decision diagram direct effect Divisional Court EC law EEC Treaty enforce English law English legal system ensure European Community law European Court European Union Factortame facts Figure Government grant interim relief House of Lords Human Rights important incompatible inductive reasoning interim injunction interim protection interpretation issues judge judgment jurisdiction language law reports legal rules liability Lord Bridge Lord Denning meaning Member method national court national law Northern Ireland obligations paragraph Parliament party person preliminary ruling principle problem question procedure proceedings provisions of Community quotas reading reasoning reference registered Regulations relation relevant remedies rights claimed Secretary skills statute statutory statutory instrument Theft Act 1968 Treaty of Rome understanding United Kingdom validity Wigmore Chart words