CONTENTS:

PART I: THE LEGAL SYSTEM
1. The legal system
2. The structure of the English legal system
3. Civil process
4. Criminal process
5. Legal services
6. Sources of law
7. The law-making process
8. Understanding law
PART 2: CRIMINAL LAW
9. General principles
10. Offences against the person
11. General defences
12. Crime and society
13. The procedure and practice of sentencing
PART III: THE LAW OF TORT
14. The nature of tort law
15. Physical damage: fault and strict liability
16. Physical damage: tort compensation and state compensation
17. Interference with the use of land
18. Infringement of personality
19. Economic loss
PART IV: CONTRACT
20. What contract law is all about
21. How contracts are made
22. Discovering what the contract is
23. Remedies
24. Interference by the law with freedom of contract
25. Variation, waiver and determination by agreement
26. Consumer protection