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Author Holland, James A. (Law teacher)

Title Learning legal rules : a student's guide to legal method and reasoning / James A. Holland, Julian S. Webb
Edition Fifth edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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 WATERFT LAW  KA 55 A1 Hol/Llr 2003  AVAILABLE
Description 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. What is Law? -- 2. Finding the Law -- 3. Reading the Law -- 4. Law, Fact and Language -- 5. The Doctrine of Judicial Precedent -- 6. How Precedent Operates -- 7. Interpreting Statutes - the Rules -- 8. "Bringing Rights Home": Legal Method and the Convention Rights -- 9. Exploiting Legal Reasoning -- 10. European Legal Method
Summary This text brings together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning. It explains how to uncover and exploit legal materials, which is then used to draw the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument, and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation
Analysis Law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Law -- Methodology.
Law -- Great Britain.
Author Webb, Julian S.
LC no. 2004559947
ISBN 0199254826 paperback alkaline paper