How Law Works The Machinery and Impact of Civil Justice [Hardcover]

This book looks at the civil justice system - the courts and what they do; legal aid and other methods of providing access to justice; lawyers and their conduct; and the role of legal procedure. It also looks at the impact the civil justice system has on wider society, and its relationship with economics and commercial development. The book is largely focussed on Britain, but includes material from the USA, the Indian sub-continent, south-east Asia, and Aboriginal society in Australia.

Preface
1. Introduction
I The Machinery of Justice
2. Access to Justice: I
3. Access to Justice: II
4. Courts
5. Procedure
6. Lawyers' Conduct: The Professional Standards
II Law's Impact
7. Rights in Practice
8. Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: The Australian Aboriginals
9. Law and Economic Development: Credit and Security in South and South-East Asia
10. Legal Transplants: The Sri Lankan Experience
11. Conclusion

Former Labour MP for Dudley North, 1997-2005; Solicitor-General 1998-2001, Visiting Professor, University of London, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1986-1997