English Law Basics · glossary
An Act of Parliament. Every Act is on legislation.gov.uk with its later changes built in, so read the “Latest available (Revised)” text before you cite a section. The Advice File keeps its Act extracts in Tab 5. Statute extracts, Tab 5 · Chapter 1 · see Case law, Common law
Explained in Chapter 1, English Law Basics: Statute, Case Law and the Courts, of English Law Basics.
English law comes from two places. Parliament makes statute (an Act), and judges make case law in their judgments. Built up case by case, those rules are the common law. A court applies both: the statute gives the rule, and the cases show how a court reads it. This workbook follows one dispute. A seller of ice-cream machines from abroad faces its first English claim, and your firm answers six questions for it.Read Chapter 1, English Law Basics: Statute, Case Law and the Courts →
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