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 law of tort: general
15. The tort of negligence
16. Strict liability in tort
17. Defences to claim in tort
18. Remedies in tort
PART IV: CONTRACT
19. What contract law is all about
20. How contracts are made
21. Discovering what the contract is
22. Remedies
23. Interference by the law with freedom of contract
24. Variation, waiver and determination by agreement
25. Consumer protection