Learning legal rules : a student's guide to legal method and reasoning. /
James A. Holland, Julian S. Webb ; foreword by Lord Templeman.
- 6th ed.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- xxvi, 376 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Understanding the law -- Finding the law -- Reading the law -- Law, fact and language -- The Doctrine of judicial precedent -- How precedent operates: ratio decidendi and obiter dictum -- making sense of statues -- Interpreting statues -- Bringing rights home: legal method and the convention rights -- European legal method -- Exploiting legal reasoning.