The Law-Making Process

As a critical analysis of the law-making process in the UK, this book has no equal. For more than three decades, it has filled a gap in the requirements of law students and others taking introductory courses on the UK legal system and is now in its seventh edition [previous edition published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press]. The book deals with every aspect of the law-making process: the preparation of legislation * its passage through Parliament * statutory interpretation * binding precedent * how precedent works * law reporting * the nature of the judicial role * European Union law * the process of law reform. It presents a large number of original texts from a variety of sources - UK cases, official reports, articles, books, speeches, and empirical research studies - laced with the author's informed commentary and reflections on the subject. The Law-Making Process is essential reading and contains a wealth of information dealing with both the broad sweep of the subject and with all its detailed ramifications. [Subject: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law]

Michael Zander QC is Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught from 1963 to 1988. His published books include Lawyers and the Public Interest (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1968); Legal Services for the Community (Temple Smith,1978); A Matter of Justice (IB Tauris 1988); Cases and Materials on the English Legal System (10th edn, Cambridge, 2007); A Bill of Rights? (4th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 1996); Zander on PACE (6th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 2013); and the1999 Hamlyn Lectures, The State of Justice (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000). He has conducted many empirical studies. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991-93). For 25 years (1963-88) he was also Legal Correspondent of The Guardian and has been a frequent broadcaster on radio and television. He is acknowledged to be one of the foremost authorities on the workings of the legal system.