Learning legal rules : a students' guide to legal method and reasoning /
James Holland, LLB, PhD, Barrister, Professor of Employment Law, University of the West of England, Bristol; Julian Webb, BA, LLM, LLd, FRSA, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Tenth edition.
- xxi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Understanding the law -- Finding the law -- Reading the law -- From reading to writing -- Law, fact, and language -- The doctrine of judicial precedent -- How precedent operates : ratio decidendi and obiter dictum -- Making sense of statutes -- Interpreting statutes -- 'Bringing rights home' : legal method and the convention rights -- European legal method -- Exploiting legal reasoning.