Learning legal skills - Simon Lee|Marie Fox

Legal skills are certain to play an essential role in the future of legal education at both the academic and professional stages. Advocacy, negotiation and fact-finding will be studied alongside the more traditional topics of statutory interpretation and precedent. Once acquired, these skills will become fundamental to future studies and legal practice.;This book is an introduction to the acquisition of critical legal skills, exploring how problems can be analyzed, and how concepts like justice or efficiency may be used to argue for reform. This revised edition takes account of relevant legal decisions such as "Pepper vs Hart"and "R v Brown", as well as incorporating developments in legal theory since the first edition. It also includes two completely new chapters one on negotiation by Christine Bell and one which rounds off the book by considering contemporary legal issues such as discrimination, capital punishment and concepts of property. This book also explores more fully the impact of the European Community upon the skills that UK lawyers must acquire.;sIMON lEE HAS ALSO WRITTEN "lAW AND mORALS", "jUDGING jUDGES" AND "tHE cOST OF fREE sPEECH".