English and Welsh Legal System Resources
Innovative resources for studying and teaching the English Legal System
Please find a list of suggested further reading, organised by topic
(note: this area is underdevelopment and will be updated)
Meaning of law
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[VIDEO] Law and its impact on everyday life: https://youtu.be/gak78h-zwlk (a video)
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[ARTICLE] Lon Fuller, ‘The case of Speluncean explorers’ (1949) 62 Harvard Law Review 616
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[VIDEO] The Commonwealth, British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies https://youtu.be/cIhWbDNMDl0
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[VIDEO] The interaction between legal systems https://youtu.be/5-SoRMq_sJw
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Institutions of Law Making
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[REPORT] Reform of the House of Lords Report from 2007 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228891/7027.pdf
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[WEBSITE] Reform of the House of Lords https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/lords-history/lords-reform/
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[ACADEMIC REPORT] Reform of the House of Lords from the Constitution Unit: https://constitution-unit.com/2020/02/23/lords-reform-is-back-on-the-agenda-what-are-the-options/
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[ARTICLE] Lord Bingham, ‘The House of Lords: its future?’ [2010] Public Law 261.
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[VIDEO] Officers of Parliament https://youtu.be/_SkcjEfDFSo
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[ARTICLE] Gavin Phillipson, ‘The greatest of them all, a rival chamber or a hybrid nonsense? Solving the second chamber paradox’ [2004] Public Law 352
Primary Legislation
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[VIDEO] Features of a Statute https://youtu.be/JDM1D5sd0cc
Secondary Legislation
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[ACADEMIC REPORT] Alexander Sinclair and Joe Tomlinson, (https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources-search/ October 2020)
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[REPORT] Select Committee on the Constitution (HoL), November 2018 HL Paper225 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldconst/225/225.pdf
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[VIDEO] Features of a statutory instrument https://youtu.be/roun0JJWHa4
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[VIDEO] Legislating at times of emergency https://youtu.be/WgUNRb8Pshc
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[SPEECH] Lord Sumption https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/privatelaw/Freshfields_Lecture_2020_Government_by_Decree.pdf
Statutory interpretation
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[REPORT] Law Commission Report on statutory interpretation from 1969) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-interpretation-of-statutes
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[ARTICLE]Lord Justice Sales, ‘Modern statutory interpretation’ (2017) 38 Statute Law Review 125
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[Article] Diggory Bailey, ‘Bridging the gap: legislative drafting practice and statutory interpretation’ [2020] Public Law 220
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[BOOK] Michelle Sanson, (2nd edn, OUP 2016)
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[BOOK] Colin Manchester and David Salter, (4th edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2011)
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[ARTICLE] Geoffrey Marshall, ‘The lynchpin of parliamentary intention: lost, stolen or strained’ [2003] 236
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[ARTICLE] Lord Steyn ‘Pepper v Hart: A re-examination’ (2001) 21 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 59
The Judiciary
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[VIDEO] Magistrates https://youtu.be/LZe1IrFsTKU
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[ARTICLE] Lady Hale, ‘Equality and the judiciary: why should we want more women judges?’ [2001] 489
Precedent
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[BOOK] Sir Rupert Cross, (4th edn, OUP 1991)
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[BLOG POST] https://www.englishandwelshlegalsystem.co.uk/post/wielding-someone-else-s-broom-the-government-consults-on-designating-additional-courts-that-can-dep
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[ARTICLE] Terence Prime and Gary Scanlan, ‘and the Court of Appeal; judicial confusion and judicial reform?’ (2004) 23 Civil Justice Quarterly 212
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[VIDEO] Features of a case https://youtu.be/aa09bY9Agf4
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[ARTICLE] Bruce Harris, ‘Final appellate courts overruling their own “wrong” precedents: the ongoing search for principle’ (2002) 118 408
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[ARTICLE] J.W. Harris, ‘Towards principles of overruling – when should a final court of appeal second guess?’ (1990) 10 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 135
Court Structure
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[ARTICLE] Lord Mance, ‘Constitutional reform, the Supreme Court and the Law Lords’ (2006) 25 155
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Juries
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[ARTICLE] Penny Darbyshire, ‘The lamp that shows that freedom lives – is it worth the candle?’ [1991] Criminal Law Review 740
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[ARTICLE] Kevin Crosby, ‘Juror punishment, juror guidance and the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015’ [2015] Criminal Law Review 578
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[ARTICLE] Paul Fitzpatrick, ‘The British jury: an argument for the reconstruction of the little parliament’ (2010) 6 Cambridge Student Law Review 1
Civil Justice
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[VIDEO] Legal Aid https://youtu.be/UZHFwTnHH7w
ADR
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[SPEECH] Lord Thomas, Keeping Commercial Law up to date https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/lcj-aston-university-speech-8-march-2017.pdf
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[VIDEO] Family Law Arbitration https://youtu.be/ZN_ZXLiD9Hw
Technology and the Law
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[ACADEMIC REPORT] Discrimination by algorithm https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/proving-algorithmic-discrimination-in-government-decision-making/
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[SPEECH] Lord Hodge, The Potential and Perils of Financial Technology: Can the Law adapt to cope? https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/speech-190314.pdf
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[VIDEO] Legal Technology https://youtu.be/dXRfaIq5Stk
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[SPEECH] Lord Hodge, Law and technological change https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/speech-190404.pdf