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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Page vii
... language can exert at the level of language itself. It introduces readers to the residual and hidden power that language has and the way in which it can predetermine ways of seeing and understanding the world. These 'taken for granted ...
... language can exert at the level of language itself. It introduces readers to the residual and hidden power that language has and the way in which it can predetermine ways of seeing and understanding the world. These 'taken for granted ...
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... LANGUAGE 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Learning outcomes 9 2.3 Language and word construction 9 2.4 Case study, the relationship between language, law and religion 2.4.1 Sacred texts, English law and the problem of language 12 14 2.5 2.5.1 ...
... LANGUAGE 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Learning outcomes 9 2.3 Language and word construction 9 2.4 Case study, the relationship between language, law and religion 2.4.1 Sacred texts, English law and the problem of language 12 14 2.5 2.5.1 ...
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... language and grammar of s 3 3.4.4.3 Punctuation consideration 3.4.5 Subject search of sentences 3.4.5.1 Sentence 1: s 3(1) 3.4.5.2 Sentence 2: s 3(2) 3.4.6 Section 11 task 3.5 Summary 3.6 Further reading 4 READING AND UNDERSTANDING LAW ...
... language and grammar of s 3 3.4.4.3 Punctuation consideration 3.4.5 Subject search of sentences 3.4.5.1 Sentence 1: s 3(1) 3.4.5.2 Sentence 2: s 3(2) 3.4.6 Section 11 task 3.5 Summary 3.6 Further reading 4 READING AND UNDERSTANDING LAW ...
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... language skills; • knowledge of the relevant 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 ...
... language skills; • knowledge of the relevant 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 ...
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... language ; ( b ) read and understand texts talking about the law ; ( c ) read and understand texts of law ( law cases ; legislation ( in the form of primary legislation or secondary , statutory instruments , bye - laws , etc ) ...
... language ; ( b ) read and understand texts talking about the law ; ( c ) read and understand texts of law ( law cases ; legislation ( in the form of primary legislation or secondary , statutory instruments , bye - laws , etc ) ...
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 |
10 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 Chapter chart Commission Common Fisheries Policy competent concerned considered contract term 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 Gend en Loos grant interim relief House of Lords Human Rights incompatible inductive reasoning interim injunction interim protection interpretation issues judge judgment judicial jurisdiction language law reports legal rules liability Lord Bridge Lord Denning meaning Member Merchant Shipping Act method national court national law obligations paragraph party person Point in argument preliminary ruling problem question procedure proceedings proposition reading reasoning reference registered Regulations relation relevant remedies rights claimed Secretary skills statute statutory Tariefcommissie Theft Act 1968 Treaty of Rome understanding United Kingdom validity Wigmore Chart words